Kenneth Okonkwo, the spokesperson for the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign, has accused the ruling Party of stoking a religious war in the country.
Okonkwo stated this through his twitter handle on Sunday.
According to him, APC is the Party that is stoking religious crisis in Nigeria with their Muslim 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.
In an audio released by an online newspaper, Peoples Gazette alleged that Obi solicited the support of Oyedepo to help get votes from Christians in South-West.
The former governor of Anambra State also stated that the votes were needed because the 2023 presidential election was a religious war.
Although Okonkwo verified the authenticity of the audio but claimed it was taken out of context by critics.
But LP accused the All-Progressives Congress (APC) of trying to demarket Peter Obi, its presidential candidate.
In a statement released on Sunday, Diran Onifade, head of the LP campaign, and Yunusa Tanko, the council’s chief spokesperson, said the audio is deep fake aimed at tarnishing Obi’s image.
“While we are toeing the constitutional path to retrieve our mandate, those who have truncated the wishes of the majority of Nigerians have recoursed to mischief and endless subterfuge to continue to hold on to what they know does not belong to them,” the LP campaign said.
“From the show of shame in Port Harcourt to the drama in the Ibom Air aircraft, both of which they contrived, they have now moved to the circulation of a deep fake audio file aimed at promoting religious tension in the country.
“All these are meant to serve no other purpose than egregious mischief aimed at demarketing Peter Obi. If the goal is to create a credibility problem, the ploy has failed woefully.
“Peter Obi has long been on record as the only presidential candidate who has urged the Nigerians electorate not to vote for him on the basis of religion or tribe.”
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