Osun Election: Activist Sowore Slams Afrobeat Star, Davido For Endless Twitter Rants As Governor Adeleke Wins Re-Election

Osun State just had one of its most dramatic elections in years, and somehow, half the drama happened not at the collation centres but on Twitter between a singer and an activist.

By the time Governor Ademola Adeleke was declared winner in the early hours of Sunday, the online fight between his nephew, Davido, and rights activist Omoyele Sowore, had gathered almost as much attention as the vote count itself.

“You Thought You Could Have It Both Ways” Sowore Goes After Davido

On Saturday, August 15, 2026, Sowore took to his X account and let loose on Davido, accusing him of talking tough online while his family quietly played both sides of Nigerian politics.

“Now you know, Davido,” Sowore wrote. “You guys thought you could have it both ways, opportunism and political hedging.”

He wasn’t done. In the same thread, he went straight for the Adeleke family’s politics:

“You want your family to keep controlling the Osun State purse while embracing the same monstrous president Tinubu @officialabat establishment at the federal level.”

Sowore then widened the attack beyond Davido to the whole family:

“In the end, it is about protecting personal and family interests, not the interests of the people of Osun State or Nigerians. You cannot claim to stand with the people while simultaneously cutting deals with the political establishment that has failed them.”

He closed with what read like a warning shot to Nigerians more broadly:

“I hope the lessons have been learned. Nigerians should now know exactly who these people are, what they represent, and whose interests they truly serve.”

How It All Started

This didn’t come out of nowhere. The bad blood goes back to Thursday, August 13, 2026, two days before Osun voted.

Sowore had gone on News Central TV’s Breakfast Central and torn into Governor Adeleke’s record. He didn’t hold back, saying Adeleke “has no brains” and “nothing upstairs,” and describing Osogbo, the state capital, as looking “like a war zone with no basic infrastructure.”

Davido saw the clip, reposted it on X, and hit back with just one word: “Arindin” Yoruba for someone considered foolish or lacking sense.

Sowore didn’t let that slide either. He turned the same insult right back at Davido’s uncle:

“The real arindin is your uncle, @AAdeleke_01, who had to go back and obtain the equivalent of a GED after he had already served as a Nigerian Senator.”

He kept going, this time on Adeleke’s politics:

“The real arindin is your uncle who chose @officialABAT as his presidential candidate, apparently hoping that imbecilic political loyalty would allow your family to continue treating Osun State as a private estate to finance your extravagant lifestyle.”

He also called the Adeleke family “oppressive, corrupt, incompetent, and entitled” essentially accusing them of feeding off ordinary Nigerians’ suffering.

From there, Davido barely stopped posting. Through election day, he accused the APC of plotting to inflate figures, claimed Senate President Godswill Akpabio had ordered a halt to collation, told president Tinubu to “call your people to order,” and declared flatly that he would “never support APC” in his life. It was this nonstop stream of tweets capped off by his clash with president Tinubu over the alleged security withdrawal that finally pushed Sowore to fire off the “opportunism and political hedging” post that has since gone viral.

What Actually Happened At The Polls

Osun went to the polls on Saturday, August 15, 2026. Fifteen parties were on the ballot, but really it came down to three: Adeleke defending his seat for Accord, Bola Oyebamiji flying the APC flag, and Najeem Salaam representing the ADC.

Out of 2,339,544 registered voters, 1,010,684 showed up to be accredited.

It wasn’t a clean day. There were pockets of violence, including a reported shooting in Osogbo, allegations that suspected APC thugs hijacked ballot papers, and the arrest of an opposition party chairman. Security was massive, president Tinubu had ordered maximum protection for voters, and police deployed more than 15,000 officers statewide.

Collation dragged into Sunday morning. When it was finally done, the Returning Officer, Professor Joshua Ogunwole Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti announced that Adeleke had won with 511,067 votes against Oyebamiji’s 444,815, putting his margin at 66,252 votes. Salaam finished a distant third with 17,180 votes. Adeleke carried 19 of the state’s 30 local government areas; Oyebamiji took the other 11.

Adeleke didn’t hide his confidence when he spoke afterward. “This is no victory, no vanquish. I want them to come over. I’m expecting Oyebamiji to call me and congratulate me,” he said, calling the win “a victory for democracy in Nigeria” and pointing to his record on “infrastructure, education, agriculture, and so forth” as the reason voters stuck with him. It’s now a second term for him at the Bola Ige Government House.

“UR KILLING DEMOCRACY” Davido Turns On Tinubu

As results started coming in on Saturday and it looked like his uncle was pulling ahead, Davido posted something far more explosive than his back-and-forth with Sowore, a direct accusation against the president himself.

“Because we are winning,” he wrote. “They want to withdraw the police and military! MR PRESIDENT TINUBU! UR KILLING DEMOCRACY.”

That post didn’t come from nowhere either. Earlier the same day, Davido had already been live-tweeting alleged problems at polling units complaining about BVAS machines malfunctioning and telling officials to switch to the front camera if the main one failed, and claiming some presiding officers wanted to enter results directly at the collation centre instead of at the polling units, which raised suspicion.

He kept urging Accord supporters to stay put, protect their votes, and make sure results were properly signed on Form EC8A and uploaded to INEC’s IReV portal.

He wasn’t alone in the alarm. Former senator Dino Melaye backed him up, claiming that because Accord was ahead in most units, “the APC and the government are trying to withdraw security operatives so that they can start rigging.”

Davido kept the pressure on afterward too, posting “U no try @officialABAT” directly at the president, and later appealing to Tinubu to rein in APC supporters after alleged thugs reportedly stormed a collation point in Osogbo to disrupt the count in two wards.

Who’s Backing Davido

A good number of his fans and Accord supporters see him as the reason the collation process stayed under public scrutiny crediting his real-time posts on BVAS problems, alleged rigging plots, and the security pullback claim with keeping pressure on INEC while votes were still being counted.

Others point out that it takes some nerve for an entertainer to call out a sitting president by name, and they respect him for not staying quiet just to protect his brand or business interests.

Some also noted that his tips weren’t just noise; the BVAS front-camera advice, for instance, was genuinely useful to people at polling units dealing with faulty machines.

Who’s Against Davido

Critics and this is basically Sowore’s whole argument saying Davido’s sudden concern for democracy is convenient timing. He wasn’t this loud about Tinubu or the APC until his uncle’s seat was on the line.

Some think he overstepped, arguing that a musician getting this deep into a governorship race involving his own family blurs the line between civic duty and self-interest.

Others just weren’t impressed by how he handled Sowore the one-word “Arindin” insult, in particular, struck many as beneath someone with his public profile, and some felt his overall tone through the election period was more inflammatory than informative.

Who’s Backing Sowore

His supporters give him credit for not backing down just because Davido has a massive following to them, his pushback exposed a real contradiction in how the Adeleke family criticises the Tinubu establishment while quietly working with it.

Some see his questions about Adeleke’s academic record and infrastructure claims as fair game legitimate scrutiny of a sitting governor, regardless of who’s upset about it.

Others liked that his “opportunism and political hedging” line landed as a broader statement about Nigeria’s political class, not just a personal jab at Davido.

Reactions: Who’s Against Sowore

Critics feel his original comments about Adeleke calling him “brainless” and saying he has “nothing upstairs” were unnecessarily harsh and dragged what should have been a policy conversation into personal insults.

Some think he got needlessly petty once Davido got involved, turning a critique of governance into a straight-up insult exchange.

A few suggested his relentless attacks on the Adeleke family during election week look less like principled activism and more like an attempt to stay relevant ahead of his own 2027 presidential run.

Bottom Line

What started as one TV interview about Governor Adeleke’s record turned into a full-blown online war between an activist and one of Nigeria’s biggest music stars playing out in real time during one of the tensest governorship elections Osun has seen in a while.

By the time INEC made it official on Sunday, August 16, 2026, with Adeleke winning by more than 66,000 votes, the Sowore-Davido feud had practically become its own story, separate from the election itself. Neither man is backing down. Sowore maintains he’s calling out hypocrisy among Nigeria’s political and entertainment elite, while Davido insists everything he did was about protecting the integrity of the vote back home.

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