Uzodimma To Davido: I’m Not An Osun Voter

Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma has told Popular musician, David Adeleke, that as a committed member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), he is bound to support the party’s candidate ahead of the August 15th governorship election even though he isn’t eligible to vote in the state.

The governor also dissociated himself from a report circulating on social media in which his aide reacted to Davido’s media briefing.

Recall that Davido, during a press conference appealed to a politician from Imo State to allow a free and fair election in Osun State, though many believed he was referring to Governor Uzodimma.

Davido had alleged there were rumours of plans to interfere in the August 15governorship poll.

However, Uzodimma’s Senior Special Assistant on Electronic and Creative Media, Ambrose Nwaogwugwu had via his verified Facebook social media handle said Davido should direct his appeal to Osun voters rather than to Uzodimma.

Further, he had predicted defeat of Governor Ademola Adeleke, who is seeking re-election, saying the electorate had lost confidence in his administration.

However, spokesperson for Governor Uzodimma, Oguwike Nwachuku, in a statement, dissociated the governor from the statement, made by Nwaogwugwu.

Uzodimma said he neither authorised Nwogwugwu nor anyone for that matter to make a comment about Davido’s media briefing.

The governor, who described Davido as his son, said his coming to Osun for the exercise is solely because he is a committed member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and not one of the voters in the State’s governorship election on Saturday, next week or at any other time.

He maintained that the APC had “always canvassed for peaceful, credible, free and fair democratic contests, and in the case of the forthcoming Osun election, will not fail to…