The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has been described as a liar for denying a statement accredited to him. He was accused of calling the last presidential election as a “religious war”.
Recall that in a leaked audio conversation, now popularly known as YesDaddyGate, Obi was heard begging the founder of Winners Chapel, David Oyedepo, over February 25 general election, when he made the statement. Listen below.
@freelanews Desperate Peter Obi said February 25 election was a religious war, begs Oyedepo for Christian votes #tiktoknaija #obidients #foryou #fyp #goviral ♬ original sound – OtunbaVictor
However, in a recent interview in a broadcast station, Obi, though admitted he spoke with Oyedepo, but said he never described the 2023 election as a “religious war”.
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The Labour Party’s candidate claimed that the audio clip was doctored, adding that at no time did he “ever say, think, or even imply that the 2023 election is, or was a religious war”.
“Call it whatever you want to call it. Whatever anyone wants to make of it. I am not a religious bigot. Do you think I can just pick a phone and say ‘religious war’? No, I was even begging the bishop to help me ask his people to vote, which was what I was doing for six months — begging,” Obi said.
“I wasn’t saying ‘catch him’, ‘kill him’, ‘force it’. I was even begging. That shows that I continued to look for votes by begging. There were so many things we tried to do but they were not okay,” he said.
In his reaction, the Chief Spokesperson for the APC Presidential Campaign (2019 & 2023) and Min. of State, Labour, Festus Keyamo, had called out Obi.
“Liar! Liar! Pants on fire!!” Keyamo wrote.
On his part, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) , Omoyele Sowore, called his opponent in the last 2023 general election a hypocrite.
“REPUBLIC OF LIARS! #RevolutionNow. Yes Daddy: Obi admits phoning Oyedepo, denies ‘religious war’ allegation,” Sowore exclaimed.
Ojelabi, the publisher of Freelanews, is an award winning and professionally trained mass communicator and a recipient of the D9112 Superstar Icon Award, who writes ruthlessly about pop culture, religion, politics and entertainment.
