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The bashing Obi received in the last two weeks has touched the hearts of some elder statesmen including notable Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, who demanded that the minister deserved to be sanctioned for allegedly spreading fake news during his recent trip to the United States.
For at least three reasons, I really wanted to stay away from the hoopla that attended Peoples Gazette’s publication of Peter Obi’s “religious war” (or
Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka has weighed in with his views on the leaked phone conversation between Peter Obi of the Labour Party and Bishop David Oyedepo, founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide. Despite confirmation by some key members of his party and after being silent for days, Obi on Wednesday described the leaked audio as fake. In the audio published by an online newspaper, Peoples Gazette on Saturday, Obi described the 2023 presidential election as a ‘religious war’.
"As part of the grand design, they are circulating a fake doctored audio call. At no time throughout the campaign did Mr Peter Obi ever say, think or even imply that the 2023 election is or was a religious war."