{"id":13092,"date":"2023-04-02T12:31:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T12:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=13092"},"modified":"2023-04-02T12:39:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T12:39:36","slug":"oyedepo-breaks-silence-on-leaked-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=13092","title":{"rendered":"Oyedepo Breaks Silence On Leaked Audio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church says he has never campaigned for any politician during any election in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailytrust.com\/just-in-oyedepo-breaks-silence-on-leaked-audio\/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Trust<\/a>, Oyedepo made the statement on Sunday at the church\u2019s headquarters in Ogun State while speaking on the subject of faith.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This come less than 24 hours after an online newspaper, Peoples Gazette, released an audio where Obi solicited the support of Oyedepo to help get votes from Christians in South-West.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The former governor of Anambra State also stated that the votes were needed because the 2023 presidential election was a religious war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cDaddy, I need you to speak to your people in the South-West and Kwara, the Christians in the South-West and Kwara.This is a religious war. Like I keep saying: if this works, you people will never regret the support,\u201d he said in the audio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In his reaction, Oyedepo said he never spoke to any group of people on behalf of any politician.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cNobody had ever told me what to say in this world. No. I have never campaigned for anybody or speak on anybody\u2019s behalf and I will not do that till I go to heaven.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThere is no (political) party in this country that didn\u2019t come to me for prayers and for advice. I advised them, some, they didn\u2019t take. Those who chose to take it, they see results; those who said no, they are going about it (laughs). If you still come again, I will still tell you, it doesn\u2019t change,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The audio had attracted criticism for Obi, with some of his supporters saying it was doctored.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But in a statement in the wee hours of Sunday, Kenneth Okonkwo, spokesman of Labour Party Presidential Campaign, verified the authenticity but claimed it was taken out of context by critics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Earlier, Director General of Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organisation, Balogun Akin Osuntokun, told Daily Trust that he had nothing to say on the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI have nothing to say on this,\u201d Osuntokun said when contacted over the phone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailytrust.com\/just-in-oyedepo-breaks-silence-on-leaked-audio\/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/dailytrust.com\/just-in-oyedepo-breaks-silence-on-leaked-audio\/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church says he has never campaigned for any politician during any election in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6801,6802,4933],"class_list":["post-13092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-david-oyedepo","tag-leaked-audio","tag-political-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13095,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13092\/revisions\/13095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}