The Director, New Media of APC Presidential Campaign Council, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has called on the security agencies to brand Peter Obi “a master terrorist” after a purported pre-election telephone conversation between the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate and popular cleric, Bishop David Oyedepo, got leaked.
In the audio clip, a voice similar to that of Obi can be heard asking Oyedepo to speak to the Christians in the South-West and Kwara to vote for him in the presidential poll, describing the election as a “religious war”.
A spokesman for LP presidential campaign, Kenneth Okonkwo confirmed the authenticity of the audio tape but urged Nigerians to disregard any insinuation of religious bigotry linked to the conversation.
“Firstly, the context of the conversation was aptly put by Bishop Oyedepo when he said ‘All Nigerians have equal stake in this nation, nobody has the right to claim that he is dashing something to someone’.
“H E @PeterObi was simply urging the Bishop to help him push this message of equal stake of all Nigerians in the Nigerian project to his people and the Christendom because the politicians of the other party are carrying on this campaign as if it is a religious war.
“To drive home this point, he informed him that he visited the traditional ruler of Offa, the Olofa of Offa, who is a Muslim, but who advised Obi to get the support of Oyedepo and be assured of his own support. No politician has ever visited the Olofa of Offa.
“It is clear to everybody that the APC political party that has a presidential candidate, vice presidential candidate, senate president, speaker of the house of representatives, deputy speaker of the house of representatives, national chairman of the party all from one religion,” Okonkwo said in a statement.
He said it was the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) that has declared war on Nigerians.
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Reacting in a tweet, Fani-Kayode said, “Now that the spokesman of Peter Obi, one Kenneth Okonkwo, has confirmed that the audio recording of the conversation between Bishop Oyedepo and his principal is authentic, it is time for us to call on the security agencies to declare Peter a master terrorist, a security risk, a man that is wholly unfit to lead a multi-religious, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural state and a hater of non-Christians.
“He is indeed one of the “troublers” of our nation.
“Can you imagine what would have happened to Muslims if he had won the election?
“Within a few months he would have plunged Nigeria into a religious war.
“God really loves Nigeria.”