World famous Afrobeats singer, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has sought God’s intervention ahead of the Supreme Court ruling on the petition challenging the victory of his Uncle and Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke, in the July 2022 gubernatorial election.
The Supreme Court on Monday, at the hearing of the petition, fixed today, May 9, 2023, to deliver judgment on the protracted case.
Taking to social media less than 24 hours before the court’s ruling, Davido prayed to God for the court to do the right thing.
He wrote: “Osun State Election Petition hearing comes up at the Supreme Court today. We look forward to the judicial affirmation of @AAdeleke_01 (The people’s) mandate. The hardest part is done, winning a free and fair Election. May God let the court do the right thing.”
Osun State Election Petition hearing comes up at the Supreme Court today.
We look forward to the judicial affirmation of @AAdeleke_01 (The people’s) mandate.
The hardest part is done, winning a free and fair Election. 🇳🇬🙏🏾 May God let the court do the right thing 🙏🏾 ❤️
— Davido (@davido) May 8, 2023
The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State, have also expressed hopes of victory.
The PDP candidate, Ademola Adeleke, was returned elected by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), but the APC candidate at the poll, Adegboyega Oyetola, rejected the result and approached the Election Petition Tribunal to challenge it.
INEC had declared that Adeleke polled 403,371 votes, to defeat then incumbent Governor Oyetola of the APC, who got 375,027 votes.
But Oyetola and the APC rejected the result of the poll and headed for the tribunal.
In its January 27, 2023 majority verdict, the Justice Tertse Kume-led tribunal annulled Adeleke’s victory and declared Oyetola the winner of the poll.
However, a minority judgment by Justice B. Ogbuli affirmed Adeleke as the winner of the poll.
Displeased, Adeleke and the PDP headed for the Court of Appeal, which on March 24 nullified the tribunal judgment and returned Adeleke as winner.