Davido lands major leadership role in Osun State

Nigerian Afrobeats superstar David Adeleke, wide known arsenic Davido, has been appointed arsenic the Chairman of the Osun State Sports Trust Fund.

The announcement was made by the Osun State Government connected Wednesday, October 22, 2025, arsenic portion of the state’s renewed effort to revitalise its sports assemblage and empower young radical done sports development.

According to the statement, Davido’s assignment aims to mobilise backstage and nationalist assemblage enactment for sports financing, with a absorption connected upgrading facilities and expanding opportunities for younker information crossed the state. The authorities said the determination reflects Governor Ademola Adeleke’s broader committedness to modernising sports infrastructure and fostering assemblage engagement done athletics.

Confirming the assignment of Davido arsenic Chairman of the Sports Trust Fund, the Deputy Governor of Osun State, Kola Adewusi, who besides serves arsenic the Commissioner for Sports, revealed that Davido enthusiastically accepted the offer. Adewusi noted that the singer’s engagement is expected to pull some section and planetary concern into the state’s sports programmes.

“Davido’s assignment is simply a strategical step. His power and passionateness volition assistance pull funds that volition importantly boost sports maturation successful Osun,” Adewusi said.

He further disclosed that the authorities is finalising plans to found the Osun State Sports Commission, which volition service arsenic the cardinal assemblage for sports medication and argumentation implementation. Additionally, helium confirmed that the ongoing renovation of the Osogbo Township Stadium is nearing completion and volition conscionable Olympic standards erstwhile finished.

The Osun State Government reaffirmed its committedness to making sports a cardinal operator of younker empowerment, endowment discovery, and assemblage development, an docket it says volition payment greatly from Davido’s enactment and planetary reach.

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