Leaked Audio: Atiku’s spokesman gives legal advice to Nigeria

Daniel Bwala, the spokesperson for Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential Candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last election, on Wednesday called for the enactment of “a specific law criminalising breach of privacy without an order of court”.

POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Bwala’s suggestion trails a leaked telephone conversation between Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party and Bishop David Oyedepo, the founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide. The audio was leaked to the public by an online news platform, People’s Gazette.

In the audio clip, Obi asked Bishop Oyedepo to help spread his message to Christians in the South-west and parts of North-central.

Addressing him as “daddy”, the Labour Party’s flag-bearer told the cleric that the just-concluded presidential election was a “religious war”.

1. In the wake of the leaked tape of a private conversation between private citizens, it’s about time a specific law criminalizing breach of privacy without an order of court be made.

— D. H Bwala (@BwalaDaniel) April 5, 2023

“In the wake of the leaked tape of a private conversation between private citizens, it’s about time a specific law criminalizing breach of privacy without an order of court be made.

“This is necessary to preserve the human rights of citizens as well as to protect the national security interests.

“Without this, it will be a case of free flow of leaks which might sadly involve citizens to citizens leaks, state to citizen leaks and citizens to state leaks with wider implications on agencies and agents of the state,” Bwala, a lawyer, wrote on his verified Twitter handle.