Davido Should Apologize For Mocking Okpebholo – Lawyer

A legal practitioner and author, Timothy Tugbiyele, has urged Davido to apologise to Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, over his social media post displaying the governor’s alleged WAEC result. He recently had his say in a now-trending video originally uploaded on Facebook, and Nigerians have been reacting.

Reacting to the development, Tugbiyele revealed that Davido should not have responded personally to the governor’s remarks because ridiculing him with his result was inappropriate.

The lawyer added that the Afrobeats singer and Okpebholo occupy different positions and should therefore not engage each other on the same level.

His words “I watched a video when Governor Okpebholo called the governor of my state, Adeleke, the dancing governor. And the governor’s relation, David Adeleke, replied by publishing the WAEC Secondary School leaving result of Governor Okpebholo, the governor of Edo State.

The result is not good enough, but it’s possible. The governor did a resit. We are not aware of that, but I think Davido, David Adeleke’s publication is inappropriate.

Governor Adeleke, Ademola Adeleke, would have replied his contemporary governor, or caused one of his workers, maybe a commissioner of information or a special assistant, to reply. Not Davido, David Adeleke.

David Adeleke and the governor of the state, they are not in the same social class. They are not of the same status. They are not in the same class.

I think what Davido did is disrespectful and I will plead with him, he should exercise some humility and apologise.

I’ve seen his pictures in time past, prostrating. He’s a properly well-brought-up Yoruba boy.

I have heard it said by one of the political leaders that everything is fair in politics. No, when you are fighting below the belt, when you are insulting, when you disrespect elders, that is not fair in politics.

You do not disrespect elders. He should apologise to Okpebholo. I’m not saying what Okpebholo did is right, to disrespect his uncle, but it should not be an eye for an eye.

I’ve had results that are not, I mean, results not good enough. But one of the things that has kept me going is that I had a father who never called me a dullard. He continued to encourage me.

So, oh, Governor Okpebholo had a result that was not good enough. He’s governor today. All of that, the bad result is in the past. Politics does not really have to go to that extent.”