Nigeria’s Minister of Transport and the Director General of the Buhari Campaign Organization, Rotimi Amaechi has reacted to leaked audio tapes in which he allegedly insulted President Muhammadu Buhari.

Former Special Assistant to former President Goodluck Jonathan on New Media, Reno Omokri, who released the two audio tapes on January 4 and 6 respectively has also threatened to release another one on Monday.

In the first audio recording, the voice which sounded exactly like Amaechi’s was heard saying: “The President does not listen to anybody. Does he even read?”

In the second, the voice said: “This country can never change, I swear. The only way that this country can change is in a situation where everybody is killed. The country will never change.”

However, in a swift reaction to the development, Amaechi, through a statement issued by his media aide, Israel Ibeleme described the tapes as doctored and a calculated attempt to tarnish his image.

“Attention has been drawn to the purported fake audio which was doctored from an unknown journalist, recorded outside the minister’s office imitating the Minister’s speech sound, which claimed that the Minister was speaking against the President and the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“It is important to let the general public know that we have worked with the Minister since February 2015 till date and that the Minister has not in any way spoken against President Muhammadu Buhari’s achievements.

“The fake doctored audio is claiming that it emanated from the conversation which the minister had with his press corp. They paid some group of boys to destroy the image of Director General of Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organization, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi. We want to put the public on the know that the said doctored audio report is false,” the statement said.