The
Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described the audio clip
circulating of an alleged meeting between some PDP chieftains and some
army officers over plans to clamp down on APC members before the Ekiti
elections last year, as fake. He said it was not independent, but
“released by the All Progressives Congress (APC), through its media
organ, SaharaReporters.”
He said that he never held any meeting
with anyone to rig the June 21, 2014 election, suggesting that his voice
and those of others could have been faked using technology like Natural
Voices. According to him, the audio clip was APC’s new calculated
attempt to discredit the election results, having failed woefully both
at the poll and the tribunal.
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor,
Mr Idowu Adelusi said in a statement issued on Friday that the APC would
have used the audio clip as evidence at the tribunal if it was genuine.
He said; “Nigerians should be reminded of how the APC people lied in
2007 that they recorded how the governorship election was rigged even in
the palace of the Ewi of Ado-Ekiti, Oba Rufus Adejugbe, but the party
could not produce a single photo evidence at the tribunal because their
plans to do what is know as Morphing and Syncing was exposed.
“Nigerians should also be reminded of
the existence of a technology called speech software, which is good at
reproducing the sounds, inflections and intonations of a human voice.
“There are softwares that can re-create
voices and even bring the voices of long-dead notable persons back to
life. There are softwares that can turn printed text into synthesized
speech, making it possible for anyone to use recordings of a person’s
voice to utter new things that the person never said. One of such
softwares is called ‘Natural Voices.’
“The APC that we all know is a party of crooks, who are capable of doing anything, no matter how criminal to achieve their aim.
“They tried all tricks to manipulate the election and failed. Even
after wining the election, they tried to prevent Fayose from assuming
office but failed.
“Now it is a fake audio clip, which is obviously targeted at the next week presidential election.
“Another question that should be asked by discerning minds is; if
indeed such a meeting took place, could any of those purported to be
present at the meeting have recorded the conversation and leaked it to
the APC? Or was the supposed secret meeting held in the public such that
it was possible for the conversations to be recorded?
“This fake audio was obviously manipulated with the use of
technology and it is known to discerning minds that motion pictures can
even be manipulated using what is called Morphing and Syncing.”
He called on Ekiti people and Nigerians to “ignore this new fabricated lie coming from the APC.”
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