Davido In Legal Battle Over Daughter With Baby Mama

 

Davido and the mother of his child Sophia Momodu are

presently in a very public and shocking legal battle over

the custody of their daughter.

Naij.com broke the news this evening by publishing a copy

of the petition filed against Davido and his sister.

See the full petition below.

Davido has also released his side of the story in details.

See below.

December 30, 2016

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 Side of the Story released via his official Instagram

account