Finally, Obi confirms controversial phone call with Bishop Oyedepo on Live TV

Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate in the just-ended presidential elections has finally spoken about the controversial phone conversation he had with Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Worldwide.

Speaking in an exclusive interview on Monday, May 1, noted that he had a phone conversation with Bishop Oyedepo but never at any point made a comment that the 2023 poll is a "religious war."

Obi said: “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. “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.”

The former Anambra state governor stated that he does not care what his opponents and their supporters make of it while also maintaining that he is not a religious or ethnic bigot.

The LP bannerman noted that he has been a friend to the Muslim community and that some forces are trying to manipulate the citizens against him but their plots will be rendered useless and their end will come.

He said: “...they will soon know who is the religious or tribal bigot. I am not one. I have just given you an example of how I built mosques. Till today, no non-Muslim governor has sent more people to Mecca than me.”