Davido rebuffs Dele Momodu, says Sophia visits Imade weekly
David Adeleke, the 23-year-old pop artiste
popularly known as Davido has rebuffed claims by his estranged lover, Sophia
Momodu on the circumstances surrounding the removal of their daughter, Imade,
from Sophia’s custody.
In a lengthy narrative issued last night,
Adeleke alleged that Sophia had been in weekly contact with Imade up till last
week and claimed that hospital authorities had sought to transfer the baby to
officials of the Lagos State Children Welfare Authority on account of alleged
drug use by Sophia.
Adeleke in his narrative said the hospital
authorities recanted only after Sophia agreed to surrender the baby for care
with him, saying his estranged lover had kept to the agreement until she
recanted last week as she insisted on going along with the Adeleke family for
the treatment and family vacation in Dubai.
Adeleke in the narrative poured invectives on
the respected veteran journalist, Dele Momodu, who he accused of not taking
care of his niece, Sophia, alleging that Mr. Momodu and his wife entered the
scene as busybodies who he claimed did not bother about the welfare of their
niece until she had a baby for him.
Vowing that he was manipulated by Sophia and
that he would never marry her, he accused his estranged live-in lover of
debauchery, saying that he was a well brought up man who would not condone such
attributes of a woman as a wife.
Efforts to get Mr. Momodu’s reaction to the
development were unfruitful as he did not respond to SMS and phone calls at
press time.
He said: “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 N300,000 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 seems to despise motherhood and parenting.
Blood polluted to the maximum level with
cannabis
Imade was in her custody for two 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,
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 out and
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 the 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.
Imade flown
to hospital in Dubai
“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 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.”
“The claim has been made that the aborted
trip to Dubia was to take Imade 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 will Imade have entered America
without a visa on her Nigerian passport?
“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 24 hours 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 travelling 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.
“Life is beautiful if we all live in simple
ways and do not engage criminal gadgets to replace integrity and honour. 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. Still, Uncle Dele Momodu, it is immoral, unlawful and
unethical to clandestinely record anyone, especially friends and family
members.
“Late evening on December 30, I responded to
your vicious internet publications that attacked me and my family. 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 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. 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?
“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”.
From: vangaurdng
