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The camp of the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Mr. Peter Obi, was yesterday thrown into confusion following a leaked audio conversation between Obi and the general overseer of Living Faith Church, Bishop David Oyedepo.
While Obi’s media aide, Mr. Val Obienyem, dismissed the leaked audio as fake and a clandestine plot to get him blackmailed, so that he would be charged to court for treasonable offences, Kenneth Okonkwo, a spokesperson of the LP campaign admitted that there was, indeed, a conversation between the two.
Obienyem, revealed that a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who is an indigene of Anambra State but based in Lagos, is heading a team set up to find a way of getting Obi indicted with treasonable charges.
He stated that the team, which also has some personnel of the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC), is currently reviewing all calls made by the LP presidential candidate in the last three years, and especially recently to see if he (Obi) mentioned “interim government or anything that will make them prosecute him for treason when and if they (Ahmed Bola Tinubu and his APC) take over (government)”.
In a statement titled, “Obi versus Oyedepo: Too bad,” Obienyem said, “I heard they set up a committee made up of some people from the Nigerian Communications Commission, headed by our prodigal brother from Nnewi.
