David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has slammed Osun State’s outgoing governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, for his claims of over-voting in the state’s July governorship elections.
In a tweet on Monday SEPTEMBER 19 Davido, accused Oyetola of “spreading lies” and destroying his legacy as governor of Osun State.
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 come a day after the governor-elect dismissed a social media post claiming that he admitted to over-voting in his response to the petition challenging his victory in the July 16 governorship election, which is currently before the Election Petition Tribunal.
Adeleke’s Spokesperson Rasheed Olawale said in a statement released on Monday that the governor-defense elect’s was being twisted.
Olawale stated that the defence filed before the Tribunal dismissed Osun State Governor Adegboyega Oyetola’s claim of over-voting in 750 polling places, emphasizing that the over-voting was caused by insufficient data from the Biomodal Voter Accreditation System based on the unsynchronised BVAS report used by the petitioners.
It was also stated that a civil society organization operating under the auspices of Yiaga Africa condemned attempts by the state’s current ruling party, the All Progressive Congress, to distort the results of the governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun States.
The organization reacted to publications attributed to Governor Oyetola’s Chief Press Secretary, Ismail Omipidan, which stated that the recently launched Yiaga Africa Election Result Analysis Dashboard report for the Ekiti and Osun governorship elections “confirms” that the governor who ran on the All Progressives Congress platform won the election.
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.”
