A media aide to Peter Obi, Valentine Obienyem, has revealed that the leaked audio of his principal’s conversation with the General overseer of the Living Faith Church, Bishop David Oyedepo, was doctored.

Obienyem also claimed asocial media user, ‘our Nnewi prodigal brother’ is responsible for the leak.

He stated that the person responsible for the leak, edited the part where Obi stated that Nigeria needs religious balancing, which led to the discussion with the clergyman.

In the audio clip, Obi seemed to be urging Oyedepo to encourage Christians to vote for him.

“Daddy, I need you to speak to your people in the South-West and Kwara, the Christians in the South-West and Kwara. This is a religious war,” Obi allegedly said in the trending audio.

But in a post on Facebook this Sunday, Valentine Obienyem said in a post captioned: 

Obi versus Oyedepo: Too bad!

“I heard they set up a Committee made up of some Communications experts, headed by our prodigal brother from Nnewi. They are reviewing all calls Obi made in the last three years, and especially now to see if he mentioned Interim Government or anything that will make them prosecute him for treason when and if they take over.

“Till now, they are yet to see any. The badly doctored conservation with Bishop Oyedepo released by our Nnewi prodigal brother is the much they have discovered so far. They edited out the Muslim-Muslim ticket that led to the discussion, where Obi said that in a society like ours, religious balancing was a necessary consideration and that their recklessness had made Christians to assume it was a religious war.”

The All Progressives Congress, APC, fielded a Muslim-Muslim ticket, with Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima.

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