David Adeleke, better known by his stage name as Davido, has criticized Adegboyega Oyetola, the departing governor of Osun State, for his assertions that there was over-voting in the state’s July governorship elections.
Davido, the nephew of Ademola Adeleke, the next governor of Osun State, accused Oyetola of “spreading lies” and tarnishing his reputation in a tweet posted on Monday.
Davido tweeted, “You’re actually just a bad human being @GboyegaOyetola; no other way to put it. Spreading lies everywhere, destroying your legacy (not like you even have).
“It’s done and dusted. @inecnigeria, please, is there any such thing as over-voting with your new BVAS Machine? NOV 27th WE MOVE!!”.
The singer’s remarks follow the governor-dismissal elect’s of a social media post that claimed he had acknowledged to casting too many ballots in a response to the petition challenging his election as governor on July 16 that is currently being heard by the Election Petition Tribunal.
According to reports, Adeleke’s spokesperson Rasheed Olawale shared a statement on Monday in which it was claimed that the governor-defense elect’s had been misrepresented.
Olawale noted that the over-voting was caused by the incomplete data of the Biomodal Voter Accreditation System based on the unsynchronized BVAS report that was used by the petitioners, and that the defence filed before the Tribunal dismissed Osun State Governor Adegboyega Oyetola’s claim of over-voting in 750 polling.
According to earlier reports, a civil society organization operating under the auspices of Yiaga Africa criticized efforts by the state’s current ruling party, the All Progressive Congress, to misrepresent the results of the governorship elections in the states of Ekiti and Osun.
The organization responded to reports that the recently released Yiaga Africa Election Result Analysis Dashboard report for the Ekiti and Osun governorship election “confirms” that the governor who ran on the platform of the All Progressives Congress won the election. The reports were credited to the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Oyetola, Ismail Omipidan.
The statement released on Friday read in part, “We outrightly reject this assertion and categorically state that the ERAD report did not in any way suggest the winner or loser of the recently concluded June/July, Ekiti and Osun Governorship elections.
“Instead, the ERAD report highlighted certain shortcomings with the Independent National Electoral Commission’s upload of results to the INEC Results Viewing Portal and recommendations for improving the process ahead of the 2023 elections.
“The ERAD report corroborates the PVT findings contained in the report on the Ekiti and Osun governorship elections released on August 27 2022, which clearly revealed that the results announced by NEC in the Ekiti and Osun election were consistent with votes cast at the polling units.”
