People’s Gazette, a Lagos-based online media company, faces a lawsuit from lawyers of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, over the audio the platform published, purporting to reveal a private conversation between Obi and Bishop David Oyedepo, the founder of Winners Chapel, one of the largest churches in Nigeria.
In the leaked audio, one of the men whose voice shared keen similarities to Obi’s was urging the other man who is supposed to be Oyedepo to canvas for Christian votes for him. As of April 10, the leaked audio has been viewed over 10.3 million times, according to Twitter stats.
