A case has been filed against music star Davido by the
mother of his daughter, Sophia Momodu. Sophia accused
Davido of attempted child trafficking and abduction of their
months old child Imade Adeleke.
According to the petition that was filed to the Director
General of National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons today, Davido , her father, chief Adeleke and his half sister Ashley Coco Adeleke tried to leave Nigeria with Imade Adeleke yesterday but were stopped by an immigration officer who resisted their travel.
Dr. Dele Momodu also played a key role in ensuring Davido
and his family didn’t leave Nigeria forcefully with the child
yesterday.
Davido however has taken to Snapchat to rant about his
baby mama and how she is an “ugly ass”, although he
didn’t mention her name.
Davido now appears to have left the country for a new
year eve show he has abroad.
The petition filed by his baby mama can be seen below
December 30, 2015
The Director General
National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in
Persons
No. 2028 Delaba Street
Wuse Zone 5
FCT, Abuja
Dear Madam,
PETITION AGAINST MISS ASHLEY COCO ADELEKE & MR
ADEDEJI ADELEKE FOR ATTEMPTED CHILD TRAFFICKING
AND ABDUCTION OF MISS AURORA IMADE ADELEKE
We act as Solicitors for Miss. Sophia Ajibola Momodu,
(hereinafter referred to as our client) whose instructions
we have to forward this petition to your esteemed Agency.
Our client, a 27 year old, is the biological mother of a baby
girl with name, Aurora Imade Adeleke, who was born on
the 14th day of May 2015. The baby’s father is Mr. David
Adedeji Adeleke (aka Davido ). The father and mother are
unmarried.
On the 11th July, 2015, our client was tricked to visit the
house of Mr. David Adedeji Adeleke’s half sister – Miss
Ashley Coco Adeleke’s with her baby, Imade Aurora
Adeleke. After getting to the house on Baderinwa Alabi
Street, Lekki Phase I, Lagos, our client’s baby was
forcefully taken from her and she was thrown out of the
premises with the threat that she would be decisively dealt
with if she ever bothered to return there. There were
armed policemen in the premises and our client’s survival
instinct prevailed on her to make her leave her breast
suckling baby behind, with so much pain in her heart.
By daybreak on the next day, our client was again at
Ashley Coco Adeleke’s house to take her baby, but she
was prevented by armed policemen from gaining access
into the house. She was again threatened and warned
never to return for the child.
Since July 2015, our client, who has now become so
disorientated, saddened and confused has been going to
family members, including her cousin, Mr Dele Momodu,
and other well meaning Nigerians to intervene and allow
her get her baby back or at least allow her to be able to
have access to and care for her daughter. This was
frustrated by Coco Adeleke, David Adeleke and their father,
Mr. Adedeji Adeleke. These people boasted to our client
and all her family and friends that our client is a nonentity
and of little substance in Nigeria. They also claim that
they have the financial wherewithal and political and
security clout to deal with her and her family anyhow and
without any consequence with the aid of their brother and
uncle, Senator Isiaka Adeleke, and other friends Mr Deji
Adeleke purportedly has in government. In a bid to justify
their actions, Mr Deji Adeleke and his daughter, Ashley
Coco Adeleke, have been spreading several malicious and
unfounded allegations about our client.
While the attempts at finding a peaceful and lasting
solution were still ongoing, on Tuesday the 29th December
2015, Ashley Coco Adeleke and her father, Mr Deji Adeleke,
tried to travel to Dubai with our client’s baby. The baby
was meant to be flown out of the country with Nigerian
and American passports. Prior to that date, our client and
her cousin, Mr Dele Momodu, had gone to alert the
immigration services at the Murtala Mohammed, Ikeja
International airport of the likelihood of Ashley Coco
Adeleke travelling with our client’s baby by pretending to
be the Mother. Our client believes that her baby’s
American passport was hidden and is now likely to be in
possession of Mr Deji Adeleke or Ashley Coco Adeleke. It
appears that the assistance of Emirates Airline was sought
as the baby’s American passport was not produced in
breach of aviation regulations. Neither was a letter of
authority from the mother to confirm her consent to the
trip produced despite the airline being alerted.
When Mrs. Modupe Mofikoya, the immigration officer who
attended to the Adeleke travelling party accosted Ashley
Coco Adeleke and asked for the mother of the baby, Ashley
Adeleke claimed that she was the mother. Immediately,
the immigration officer on duty collected her Nigerian
international passport, she quickly absconded from the
scene with the baby and her father, Mr Deji Adeleke,
showed up shortly afterwards to try to clear his
daughter’s mess.
Our client with the help of her family members, including
Mr Dele Momodu, determinedly resisted the attempt by
Miss Ashley Coco Adeleke and her father, Mr Deji Adeleke,
from taking Aurora Imade Adeleke from Lagos yesterday.
Our client believes that the pair are trying to take the child
to America and thus put her out of the reach of the
biological mother.
At the moment, Miss Ashley Coco Adeleke and our client’s
daughter, Aurora Imade Adeleke
are still in Lagos and two of their respective international
passports are in the custody of the airport immigration
services. Our client’s fear now, is that Ashley Coco may
use her Nigerian passport and Aurora Imade’s American
passport to travel through other Nigerian or West African
airports.
We know that the actions of Mr Deji Adeleke and Miss
Ashley Coco Adeleke contravene many provisions of the
law. One is Section 13 of the Childs Right Law 2007 of
Lagos State (as adapted from the Federal Act), which
guarantees Aurora Imade Adeleke’s right to parental care
and protection. That law also forbids separation of a child
from her parents. Another is Section 24 of the same law,
which also prohibits abduction of a child from the lawful
custody of her parents. Neither Mr Deji Adeleke or Ms
Ashley Coco Adeleke has any lawful right to the custody of
Aurora Imade Adeleke. Even the unmarried father, Mr
David Adedeji Adeleke, only has limited rights to the child
and certainly not to the exclusion of our client, the natural
mother as the Adeleke’s are trying to do.
We are of the sound view that your Agency is the most
viable organisation that can intervene in the plight of our
client and save her from the untold trauma that she is
going through in the hands of Mr Deji Adeleke and Ashley
Coco Adeleke, who has her own child that she keeps with
her. We have advised our client about the statutory powers
of your Agency to potently investigate and enforce all the
provisions of the law that deal with abduction and
trafficking in persons.
We urge you to use your good offices to intervene in the
case of our client and protect a baby who should still be
under her mother’s care from being abducted and
smuggled abroad.
We thank you.
Yours faithfully,
O. AJAYI & CO./Gbolaga Ajayi Esq.
Davido ’s manager Kamal however told a reporter of Naij
that the baby was taken from the mother because she
uses drugs
“The baby was taken away from her due induced drugs
found in her (baby) system which she obivioly got through
the mother’s breast. David’s family is only helping her and
the baby,”
“David’s family prevented him (David) from reporting her
to the NDLEA and as we speak, the baby was recently
treated in Dubai. The baby cannot even breathe properly.
“The family has done everything to take care of the mother
and child. We rented an apartment for her and she gets
three hundred thousand naira monthly as upkeep. What
else will the family do? To be honest, not sane family will
take a child away from the mother for no reason,”
Birth of Imade Adeleke
When the second trimester of Sophia’s pregnancy was
closing, she tortuously announced to me that she was in
the family way.
My mind was bemused,and so was my soul confused.
But I quickly realized that nothing more could be done to alter my status as a father-to-be.
I knew that i was not ready to be a dad. Still, I adjusted
myself to the realities of my new situation and the
consequences of my past personal indiscretions.
I made the determination that I was going to be a good
dad. I also reasoned that my blunder is not enough
pretext to make me a husband. I was just 21. And so I
decided to be a responsible dad without being husband
to the mother of my baby. I never was in love with
Sophia neither was marriage ever in the offering.
Without knowing for sure that I was the real dad of the baby, I entrusted Sophia to the services of a private hospital for both pre-natal and post-natal medical cares. An apartment at Lekki was leased for 2 years, and paid for by me. The burden of medical bills, feeding, transportation and sundry costs rested on my person. No family member of Sophia including Uncle Dele Momodu rose to help nor guide Sophia.
I own my property at Lekki and had allowed Sophia to stay in the house because she claimed that she knew nobody in
Lagos and that her father was deceasedwhilst her mother was resident in Abuja. For real, Sophia was a drifter without a dime, education nor career. My compassion, ignorance, naivety and poor judgment had combined to make me a victim to a much older lady with super cunning sense that was mixed with a vicious and diabo lical nature. I stand accused but calmly accepted my responsibility for the sad misadventure that caused me to be a seat-mate with Sophia on a plane that was flying nowhere.
All along, I have only been generous with Sophia without
knowing for sure I was the father to the baby she was
carrying. On May 14, 2015, Sophia delivered her baby named Imade. It was after Sophia had deliveredthe baby that DNA testing medically confirmed that I was indeed the biological father of our child named Imade.
Once this status was obtained, Sophia started to apply
maximum financial demands on me. I bought all the baby
things and fully furnished her apartment. Sophia knew well
how to spend money and yet contributed zero to the vast
expenses that I incurred. None in her family contributed even a fake coin to the cost of having Imade.
Uncle Dele Momodu, now the pompous moralist, never visited Sophia nor even delivered an ordinary greeting card to Imade nor to her mum. Throughout the many months that Sophia stayed at my house when she claimed she has no family in Lagos, Uncle Dele Momodu and his bossy wife never showed up at my house to say hello to either of us.
When the going was good, Sophia had told me plenty things about her uncle Dele Momodu that I need not repeat here. And she never invited me to go with her to visit him and I don’t have the knowledge that she ever visited him throughout the time she stayed in my house. She always explained that a visit to Uncle Dele was needless and unnecessary. Uncle Dele Momodu never liked, and still does not like Sophia. He is now just grandstanding because Sophia had a baby for a fairly prominent family and famous Davido.
The case of MrsMomodu baffles me even more. Why did she not think it necessary to move to Sophia’s apartment to help her out and show her the tricks of motherhood when Imade was newly born. Not once did she visit Sophia and her baby until December 2015. She gave neither care, love nor financial support to Sophia. Now, at 7 months old, and a child with special medical needs, MrsMomodu rushed to the Lagos Airport to make an awful botch of her standing as a mother:
MrsMomodu certainly not a good person. She put time and
energy to prevent my daughter and I,the real father of Imade, from travelling aboard to keep an appointment with the American Hospital, Dubai. At the point of dying in November, 2015Imade had been rushed to this medical facility in Dubai, where she received helpful and adequate treatment, and was duly returned to Nigeria, without any side excursions.
What then suddenly propels the fear or dangerous love
ofMr&MrsMomodu for Sophia? I deeply sense this couple
never loved Sophia nor her late father. They also resent her
mum, and probably are jealous that Sophia ever became a
mum herself, and thus, wish that Sophia’s daughter who is
also my daughter, must needlessly perish.
Where is the inherent value in a callous human ploy that
directly intends to prevent a child from receiving necessary
medical care aboard once the biological father, DavidAdeleke, the child’s grandfather and all my siblings who are uncles and aunties to Imadeare booked to fly on this essential medical trip to which we have attached a restful family vacation?
Sophia ain’t a member of our family, period.
Surely, Sophia was not with Imade when she first visited
Dubai, and yet Imade was promptly returned to Nigeria. And no one said Sophia cannot come to Dubai except that I
declared that I don’t want the trip to seem like a spousal get-away. Sophia ain’t my wife and I refuse to let any action conspire to make us look like a couple. She seemed unable or unwilling to pay her way to Dubai. Also, her boastful Uncle, alas, refused to volunteer to pay her way to Dubai. I never suggested to an elder what he should take up as his personal responsibility if indeed he cared at all for Sophia as his robust involvement in our odd relationship wishes to establish. MrMomodu never bought the ticket but wanted to enforce his cosine to join my family on this Dubai trip.
Dangerous lights are furiously blinking red around my
daughter, Sophia and my person. Uncle Dele Momodu and his wife are providers of the energy espousing the idea of a
needless death to my daughter. I now say it loud and clear,
should my daughter die, this strange couple are mainly
responsible. Mr Dele Momodu should just leave me and my family alone! His daughter is not who had a baby for me, and he has been too much of an absentee uncle to Sophia to have any traction on the moral authority that commands the soul and heart of this matter. Sophia Never formally introduced him nor his wife to me, at anytime. Why are they now crowding my space and that of my daughter?
Custody, Lifestyle and Imade’s Loss of Wellness
In May, the same month Imade was born, Sophia settled in
her fancy apartment for which I paid a hefty bill for a 2 year
lease. Her baby was healthy. And she seemed happy. I would take care of all the financial needs of Imade and still pay Sophia a living allowance of 300,000 Naira plus utility bills.
Within a matter of weeks, Sophia missing and lusting for the streets of Lagos, especially the glitzy night life. She often left Imade home for clubbing, binge drinking and a life of debauchery and deviant living. She would sleep all day and party all night. When awake, she was addicted to the
telephone and cannabis. She paid the baby no attention at all and seem to despise motherhood and parenting.
Imadewas in her custody for2 straight months, unchallenged and uninterrupted, until the baby took badly and severely ill in July. Imade cried, ceaselessly, for 48 hours. She was rushed to the hospital where her condition confounded medical experts. Several tests were conducted on her and later on the mother.
Medical reports, herein attached (exhibit 1), proved
that Sophia’s blood was polluted to the maximum level with cannabis and she had by the process of breast feeding
infected her child with complicated medical conditions
associated with the use of alcohol and especially cannabis.
The trouble spot for Imade was her lungs. She had difficulty breathing largely because of the contaminated breast milk and the severity of the “Second Smoke” of marijuana inhaled by the poor child.
The medical experts at the hospital were enraged by the
callous treatment of Imade by her own mother and declared her unfit for the caring and the nursing of a delicate baby. The team determined that they would hand over the baby to the Children’s Welfare Authority of Lagos State Government. My family started to plead with the hospital management. For the first time, Sophia too was sober, sorry and contrite. We pleaded that the baby would be kept from the mother once she was returned to us, and that we would take over responsibilities for Imade’s welfare.
Voluntarily, Sophia, in the attempt to avoid the handing over of the baby to the children welfare authority, agreed to a compromise position that she would transfer Imade to the Adeleke family until the cannabis in the systems of both mum and daughter was completely outand comprehensively cleaned out. The medical expert also indicated that the full damage to Imade’s person could not be ascertained right away and that her mental state now or in d future could not be determined nor predicted until perhaps when she would have attained adulthood. This was why and how Imade was transferred to the custody of the Adeleke family.
Soonest, Sophia began to make vigorous demands for the
brand new car promised to her by me in May. My father stood out of all this matter and pointedly told me that although I was very young but I was already making big income and therefore must learn to be a responsible adult who takes care of business properly and accordingly. He had instructed since May, that i should provide the mother of my baby with a car, without delay.
But I have since had a change of mind on this issue because, of Sophia’s night crawling activities and reckless partying at night clubs. Her clubbing rendezvous escalated. In fact, she had gone to a club on Victoria Island and spent 250,000 Naira in one night. Unashamedly,she told the management of the club to slap “Davido” with the bill. I have refused to pay but till date, the club has never let off the harassment of my person for the settlement of this wild bill. I still don’t believe that my obstinacy will finally absorbed from the payment of this reckless charge. This was one of the main reason I put the purchase of the car on hold Meanwhile,Imade was increasingly worse off in wellness and she had to be flown to the American hospital in Dubai. I wrote a letter of release authorizing my sister to travel to Dubai with Imade. The hospital saved Imade who was returned to Nigeria with a medical equipment that had to be used daily to enable Imade to gain restful sleep and balanced respiratory rhythm.
The photograph of this equipment is hereby attached.
If Imade had not gone to Dubai, it is fair to say that she may not be alive today. Still, some people prevented her from keeping a follow-up appointment at the American Hospital in Dubai.For the silliest possible reason.My family would not pay for Sophia’s flight ticket and thus Imade would be disallowed from traveling for the vital purpose of medical conditions that lend oxygen to her life. Which is more important to Mr Dele Momomdu, the ticket for his cousin or the overall wellness of Imade? And why can’t this glamorous uncle buy the ticket for Sophia so that the life of imade is not compromised?
The claim has been made that the aborted trip to Dubia was to takeImade to America. This is not true.Imade’s Nigerian passport is right now with the Immigration Office with no American Visa embossed on it and Imade, though qualified to possess an American Passport because her dad is an American citizen,still does not possess an American passport.
True,her passport is being processed but the truancy of her
mother has caused a major delay. I therefore ask, how
willImade have entered America without a visa on her Nigerian passport? The great dynamics of lying is that the liar is the first to know that he has told a lie, and the lies told would certainly demolish his integrity and the peace of his soul.
Uncle Dele Momodu, beware!
So poor in understanding is the cerebral capacity of your
cousin or niece that she cannot even operate the equipment that stabilizes her child’s lungs despite rigorous training offered to her (Exhibit2). She is dismally inattentive. But she is a fabulous cannon fodder for all the frivolities of life. What more can I do for a woman who is not my wife? I am 23. I ain’t ready for marriage or even fatherhood. But I have accepted my responsibilities as my father raised me to understand life and deal with all its challenges. The only reason why some of us are dancing naked in the market place today is because Sophia’s request to go to Dubai on my ticket was declined. She is demanding for her new car and a raise of her allowance to one million naira per month. The sole reason why she’s demanding for the custody of Imade is to justify the necessity for this delusional one million naira. A domestic matter that could have been quietly and sensibly settled has been tossed to the public domain with the brutal consequences to the most innocent actor in
this drama, Imade.
From December 23-28, Sophia lived at my father’s Lekki
residence in peace except for the first one hour when a
medication was misapplied by her and Imade speedily vomited for a fearfully long time. Sophia did not know how to even bathe her own baby. She brought a friend to stay with her in a 3-bedroom flat with a resident professional nurse and nanny.
Overall, her stay was joyful and in alignment with the thrills of the Christmas holiday season.
On December 29, less than 24hours of leaving my father’s
house, Sophia was at the airport in the company of her uncle and his wife with malice aforethought and the aim to do maximum damage that would obstruct her child from traveling aboard to receive necessary and needful medical care. She was welcome to join us if she had bought her ticket or her uncle had funded her for the trip.
I offered to buy her a car and suggested a Toyota brand or
Hyundai.
She lost her cool and told me off. She wanted a fancy jeep
and preferably, a Mercedes Benz Jeep. I laughed because she just wanted to be a Lagos Big Girl for nothing. She hardly can cope with the cheapest car much less the ruinous cost of maintaining a Mercedes Benz vehicle. In December she received 500,000 naira as her allowance without doing anything for Imade. Life is not a bed of roses. Neither have I ever promised Sophia a rose garden. Her spontaneous motions of delusions utterly baffle me!
On her twitter page, she claimed she has recovered Imade
from captivity. But Imade never was in captivity. Sophia
certainly knows where Imade is. And it is where she left her
on December 28, at my father’s house. What is the lie about?
Sophia also claimed that she hasn’t seen her daughter in 5
months This cannot be true. Sophie spent every Sunday with her baby at my father’s house since July 2015 when she voluntarily transferred Imade to the Adeleke family after the cannabis incidence. She and her daughter constantly appear on her face book and twitter pages throughout this period of 5 months. What manner of unreliable and lying person is Sophia.? The picture of your reconciliation with Imade after “captivity” that you posted on your twitter page came directly from the photo shoot that you posed for at my father’s house during your Christmas stay. Why can’t you ever be affable with truth nor have a relationship with honour?
Uncle Dele Momodu was the first to bring this domestic
matter online and onto the internet. Uncle Dele Momodu ran smack into the internet highway on December 30 with Video recordings that he dishonestly, immorally and unlawfully recorded at a government facility and office at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. Uncle, you are wrong and you are not doing the right thing. By doing a thing so unlawful over a domestic mater between a 23-yearold boy and your niece is a bothersome slight that proved your niece must have learnt her sleazy ways from your own accomplished slap-happy conduct.
Life is beautiful if we all live in simple ways and do not
engage criminal gadgets to replace integrity and honour. Your worthless videorecordings has achieved nothing.But exposed your naivety and lack of decorum. Your recordings cannot alter the fact that I am “Davido” father of Imade and it cannot force me to be the husband of your cousin. In truth, I don’t know if you are uncle or cousin to Sophia. The word uncle has lost it esteem since the timethat sleazebucket took over our land. Still, Uncle Dele Momodu, it is immoral, unlawful and unethical to clandestinely record anyone, especially friends and family members. This scandalous act truly got you slaughtered and put a new slant on your person.
Late evening on December 30, I responded to your vicious
internet publications that attacked me and my family. As you well know, my response was a slam dunk that hurt you badly and diminished your person. You perhaps deserved what you got. But my father’s counsel and the love I have for Imade prompted me to recall the arrow aimed at you. You see, my father raised me well, and I promptly complied with his advise.
I thus deleted all references to the issue of December 29 at
the Airport and apologized to you in particular along with all my fans. I showed you respect even if u had drunkenly
provoked me.
Instead of reciprocating with love and elderly wisdom, you
sustained your attack of me with even more venom and
hatefulness. With all due respect for my dad, I am compelled to speak to your lies and your simulation of grand self-importance. I am 23 and you are almost 60. Your cousin has a baby for me. Rather than bring us together as a family, you wished for glowing embers to come out of cool cucumber. You know damn well how to grandstand.
This is why you instructed your lawyers to put garbage on
the internet in a matter that should be showcased in the court of law. Uncle, who offended you? Is it Davido, Sophia or Imade? It cannot be my late mum after whom I named Imade.
Is it my gentle dad? Why have you engaged yourself in a bitter private vendetta with my family? Uncle, you will have your day in court. But you will soonest be forced to embrace the fact that the crowning glory of your puffing and pride rests in your stunning emptiness. Again, I dare you, publish the garbage in your vanity trunk or perish!.
I am 23 and a performing artiste that God immensely blessed and I have joyfully made good in the industry. I won’t do this forever, and I shall timely step aside in the nearest future. I have a degree and I am stashing my monies aside so that I can build a decent future for Imade plus my future wife and family. I believe as the bible says, “every good gift is from above”.
There is nothing better in life than to tell the truth and pray.
May God ever stand by me and deliver to me my dreams and wishes. May He also deliver to your own children their dreams and desires. Uncle Dele Momodu, please, please leave me and my family alone even if it is clear, by God’s will, that you can’t do us a thing. As for me, this is the end of this conversation.
May God lead both of us to the righteous path.I thank you very much, sir.
