₦airaland Forum

By Pelumi Bolawa


Davido has fired back at house of representatives member James Faleke following tensions surrounding Saturday’s Osun governorship election, which saw his uncle Ademola Adeleke secure re-election.

Adeleke, candidate of the Accord Party, was declared winner on Sunday morning after an overnight collation of results in Osogbo.

He polled 511,067 votes to defeat his closest rival Bola Oyebamiji of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who finished with 444,815 votes. Najeem Salaam of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) placed a distant third with 17,180 votes.

The war of words began after Davido accused Faleke of pressuring the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to alter the election outcome.

In a post on X, the singer alleged that the lawmaker, alongside two other APC legislators, was attempting to “upturn the election result”.

Davido further declared that the people of Osun had rejected Oyebamiji and former Governor Gboyega Oyetola, adding that he would never support the APC.

Faleke, who traveled to Osun to support his party’s candidate, denied the allegations, insisting he had no power to influence the poll outcome. He noted that his presence in the state was no different from Davido’s support for his uncle’s party.

In an X post, Davido dismissed Faleke’s response and took a swipe at his political career.

“Politics is not a career. Get a Job!” he wrote.

The singer, who has been actively involved in his uncle’s re-election campaign, also congratulated Adeleke on securing a second term as Osun governor.

Saao:
A good advice to him. Let him and other politicians get a job.

Didijiji:
Omor politics money pass job money ooooo

wetin consign us with job

4 years as a politician, you will acquire the present, past and future wealth of 1k companies and all their staff earnings

Didijiji:
Omor politics money pass job money ooooo

wetin consign us with job

4 years as a politician, you will acquire the present, past and future wealth of 1k companies and all their staff earnings

Didijiji:
Omor politics money pass job money ooooo

wetin consign us with job

4 years as a politician, you will acquire the present, past and future wealth of 1k companies and all their staff earnings

Saao:
A good advice to him. Let him and other politicians get a job.

esnbrutality:
Davido ...

Finish them...

They are all charlatans...and to imagine the loser saying that Davido supporting his Uncle is same as h8m coming to interfer in elections that dont concern his State.

Very useless APC , criminal elements

Basicend:
And that's exactly the same reason why Nigeria is where we are today.

If we political posts less lucrative like the developed countries, we will move forward.

Worryingly:
I wonder what Tinubu’s true state of origin actually is—Osun or Lagos. It’s crazy that there are this many question marks surrounding the background of a single person.

May God help the black race

MrSly:
Gbam!!!!!!

Davido is a confirmed man. I like him more. He is fearless and knows his right. The old man who want to eat apple but want the tooth of children to ache has been silenced.

StrangeListing:
Davido’s statement right here is going to spark serious conversations, but honestly, he dropped a very bitter truth. In more advanced democracies, politics is treated as a temporary public service, not a lifetime career or permanent employment. When politicians treat governance as their only source of livelihood, it changes the entire motive for seeking power. Seeing a major artist call out top legislators like this shows how deeply invested the younger generation is in the political landscape now. It’s an interesting era for Nigerian politics.

anonimi:
How is politics not a job and a career?

Is that not the process by which people emerge from among everyone into public service positions to organise the society/ country

RolexOfGeneva:
You're so proud of making money by stealing, right?