Singer Peter Okoye aka Mr. P has wondered how safe private phone conversations are in Nigeria.
Peter’s question aimed to stir the consciousness of telephone conversation safety was born from the recent leaked audio conversation between Peter Obi and Bishop Oyedepo.
Weeks after the February 25 presidential election, the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, got entangled in some controversy over the weekend after a phone conversation between him and the founder/presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, aka Winners Chapel, David Oyedepo, leaked on social media.
Obi came under fire for declaring the 2023 presidential election a religious war, as in the now-viral leaked audio published by an online news outlet.
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In the leaked audio, the former Anambra Governor was heard begging Oyedepo for support, to help spread the message to his followers in the Southwest and North-central state.
But a member of the Obi-Datti media team, Kenneth Okonkwo, while confirming the authenticity of the audio in a statement issued in a series of tweets on his Twitter handle explained that the audio was taken out of context by Obi’s opponents.
Okonkwo’s response followed a few hours after the head of Obi-Datti Media Office, veteran broadcaster, Diran Onifade, in a statement in Abuja dismissed the audio as deep fake and a product of the propaganda machinery of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Amid the leaked phone conversation saga, PSquare twin tweeted: “Dear Nigerians, how safe is your private telephone conversations? Just saying.”