Afrobeats star, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has ruled out apologising to Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo over a viral Instagram post in which he shared what he described as the governor’s West African Examinations Council result, insisting he did nothing wrong by putting it out for residents of the state to see.

Speaking during an interview with News Central Television in Osun on Tuesday, the singer said he had no regrets about the post, which showed a result marked with several D7 grades and drew mixed reactions online after it began circulating.

“I’m not going to apologise. I didn’t do anything wrong. I was just telling people of the state the results their governor has,” he said.

The clash between the two traces back to the run-up to the August 15 Osun State governorship election, when Okpebholo campaigned for the APC’s Bola Oyebamiji and took aim at Osun Governor Ademola Adeleke, Davido’s uncle, mocking him as a governor who spent his time dancing rather than governing.

Davido, who had taken an active role in his uncle’s re-election bid, hit back by sharing the alleged academic record on his Instagram story without a caption, a move that quickly drew both mockery and criticism from Nigerians online.

While a section of the public described the singer’s response as disrespectful toward an elder and a sitting governor, with a lawyer, Timothy Tugbiyele, publicly urging him to apologise and arguing that a musician and a state governor do not occupy the same social standing,

Davido has shown no willingness to back down. In the interview, he doubled down on his position and turned his criticism back on Okpebholo, accusing him of travelling outside his own state to meddle in Osun’s election while leaving basic infrastructure back home unattended.

“You left your state, came to another state to rig. Then start talking that my uncle is a dancer, and he’s not serious, when the road to your government house is not done,” he said, adding that he considered Okpebholo’s emergence as governor a product of selection rather than a genuine electoral win.

“You didn’t win those votes, sir. You don’t know what it feels like to win an election. I feel sorry for his kids,” he said, before adding that he intended to visit Edo State personally when Okpebholo comes up for re-election.

Davido’s comments came in the same wide-ranging interview in which he reflected on his uncle’s victory in the Osun poll, which INEC declared in Adeleke’s favour with 511,067 votes against Oyebamiji’s 444,815.

He also used the conversation to rule out apologising to Africa Action Congress presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore over a separate, unrelated disagreement, maintaining that both spats stemmed from remarks he stood by rather than actions he considered out of line.