Davido is in a custody war with his baby after he tried to take his daughter, Imade, abroad without the consent of her mother, Sophia Momodu
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Nigerian pop star Davido entered into a hot mess yesterday (December 30) concerning his daughter Imade and his baby mama Sophia Momodu.
Yesterday Davido was barred from leaving the country with his daughter without the consent of her mother. Apparently Sophie had not given her consent for her baby to leave the country.
Sophia Momodu wrote a letter through her lawyer to prevent Davido from taking the baby outside of Nigeria. Davido wasn't the only one affected. His sister Coco who fronted as Imade's mother and Davido's father could not leave the country also.
Read Sophia's letter 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 Adelekes 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.
This letter and the denial from traveling with Imade possibly pissed Davido who decided it was time to air out his baby mama Sophia Momodu and her uncle Dele Momodu on Twitter.
Read his narration of events below;
">In 2015 May, I became the father of a love-child. DNA testing determined with maximum proof that I indeed was the father of my daughter, delivered by a head-butting casual lover, Miss Sophia Momodu.
>I met Sophia when I was barely 21 years old. She was many years older than me and was able to manipulate and exploit my youth, naivety and generosity. Sophia is the mother of my daughter, and no more ! She never would be my wife and she was never qualified for that status. Her background is very dissimilar from mine, and she has very paltry education and equally diminished physical attributes.
Cunningly, she moved into my house because she claimed she has no place to stay in Lagos and that her father is late and her mother is resident in Abuja.
>I have accepted what providence brought my way including my own personal indiscretions. But I also have been burdened by the gave lapses in the character of Sophia and have thus suffered for my daughter who I love as much as my late mother, Imade.
>As for the person of Sophia, I paid a two year rent for her apartment at Lekki and she receives a monthly allowance of 300,000 naira from me ever since Imade was born. This December, Sophia received 500,000 naira as her Allowance and Christmas bonus.
>On a routine hospital check, my daughter was found to be infested with massive dosage of poisonous cannabis that she contracted from the breast feeding regime of her mother's breast. We still don't know how much Imade was damaged by this toxic feeding and medical tests and procedures continue to rise and bemuse me and my family members.
Already, Imade has special needs and has been treated at the American Hospital,Dubai with all medical costs and travel expenses drawn off my personal purse ever sine she was born.
>On December 29, Imade was supposed to travel, once more, to Dubai for further medical care. A family vacation was attached to this medical trip. But our family plan was truncated by Sophia, her uncle, Dele Momodu in the company of his wife, and all these persons were the significant accessory to the Lagos Airport debacle.
>It is this incidence of December 29 that made implicitly necessary to bring my family matter to the public domain. I agree, both parents have to give simultaneous approval to the travel plans of an infant. But I do not intend for Sophia to join me on this trip as if we are going away on a spousal honeymoon. It is also fair to allow her to come along if she could pay for the costs of her own trip.
Why must I bear medical expenses for my daughter as well as the travel cost of her mum, who is neither my wife nor a friend at all? By what authority or court documents was Dele Momodu enabled to stop my child who embarked on a medical trip that would improve her wellness. I David, the father of the child was already available to attend to the child's care? Which Agency of government, as claimed by Dele Momodu and his wife, issued the authority to deny my sister, myself, my daughter and my dad on a rightful travel plan? And what has been the financial stake of Uncle Dele Momodu over my daughter, ever since she was born.
I rented an apartment for his niece who is not my wife and I duly pay monthly charges. What has uncle Dele Momodu done for my daughter or even his niece? Momodu family also wants me to buy a car for a woman who is not my wife and also an habitual and ceaseless night crawler who is unable and unwilling to mother or even bathe her own child?
>I am 23 years old now. Sophia got me and appropriated me at 21. I have just unbridled my life from her diabolical and shameless stranglehold. She should find her own life and leave me alone. Her uncle too should help her to quit the streets and find her a career. I am not her meal ticket or ATM because she has a baby for me. I love Imade and would do everything to defend this innocent baby that is being abused by callous adults for extortion purposes.
>As for me, I feel bad that my dad, who had boarded Emirates and was already issued a boarding pass but was forced to elect not to travel anymore because his daughter and granddaughter were prevented from travelling on December 29 by the Momodus. The passports of my daughter and sister were impounded for no just cause. The airline has refused to give a refund because my dad was already allocated a seat and boarding pass. Calmly, he lost over One and half million naira for his First class ticket. What is the loss to Uncle Dele Momodu in this matter ? But more precisely, what is his gain ? But o know who the real losers are.
Our lawyers are looking into the books and digging for legal recompense. The authority used by Uncle Dele Momodu is the callous enforcement of corrupt practices in the conduct of an ordinary domestic issue. Uncle Dele Momodu has boasted about possessing certain things he knows about me and my family. I dare him to publish or perish whatever he has in his pouch, globally !"
It didn't take long for Sophie Momodu to respond to Davido's allegations. Using her Twitter account she brought up her own version of events involving Davido taking her daughter away from her.
Davido and Sophia Momodu gave birth to Imade in May. Media mogul Chief Dele Momodu revealed that the pop star was a brand new father when he posted a picture of Sophie and Davido at the baby shower.
- 31- after five months in captivity, She's so happy to see her mum again
- 30- I am so happy and grateful to the Nigerian authorities and my uncle for helping me et back my daughter after 5 months
- 29- no one no matter how powerful or influential has the right to separate a mother from her baby.
- 28- I was surprised to see David bring up a family affair to Twitter and use his influence on here to shade the truth
- 27- I don't want your money, ion want your car, I DO NOT want to be your WIFE, I just want to my baby from ur wicked sister..
- 26- I told the David that my family might not be rich as his, but we are not poor and we don't tear down ppl
- 25- Uncle Dele's only crime was that he should allow me have access to Imade
- David insulted my uncle Dele Momodu
- 22- David disrespected my family, called my uncle names, insulted me anytime I tried to see my daughter
- 21- taken care of and bath 4 Imade; had to learn fast being a young mother which I did well for seven months before she was snatched 4rm me
- 20- David accused me of not being able to bathe my baby, that's a wicked lie.. He's only trying to gain sympathy online as I've always
- 20- I can't believe a father would be so foolish that he will abdicate his responsibilities and allow his wicked sis dictate his life
- 19- I want to state it clear, that David @iam_Davido is the most useless man any woman out there can meet. I curse the day I met you kid
- 18- who stood their ground and insisted that the right thing has to be done.. They gave up when the plane flew
- 17- at this point their passports were seized.. They called their father who started making calls, thank God for the immigration officers
- 16- when they were asked who the mother of the baby is, Coco showed up and claimed she was the biological mother
- 15- we immediately alerted airport officials, immigration etc. and to our surprise they showed up
- 14- I told my uncle who called David's dad to no avail and it seemed they were all part of the plot
- 13- all that didn't really matter until I discovered that David and his family were planning to smuggle Imade to the US
- 12- I was subsequently denied the rights to see my baby... David stopped taking my call too and only replied me via texts.
- 11- on the 8th of December, my aunt came from the US and we went to Coco's house to check my baby, we were walked out , I cried my eyes out
- 10- they kept to their promise of the upkeep, but not the car, I didn't bother since I could afford one... All that matter was my baby
- 9 - I had to accept because I felt they had good intentions and since I could come check my baby anytime it was ok by me
- 8 - anytime, he also Promised to pay me some upkeep and promised me a car... I didn't like these as it made me feel my baby was being bought
- 7- after the meeting, his dad requested I leave my seven month old baby at the time with him and told me I could come around to check her
- 6- I couldn't understand that cos I don't smoke marijuana and I objected at that meeting but Uncle Dele told me to stay calm
- 5- Was because medical tests detected marijuana in the Imade's system and he needed to protect her from me and David
- In that meeting David's dad apologised for fr way I was treated in Coco's residence and told my uncle and I the reason the baby was taken
- On the 15th of September, David's dad invited us for a meeting that had in attendance two of his friends and Coco
- I suffered psychologically and emotionally as I couldn't understand why I was being treated that way.. All along my baby was with Coco
- At that point I became confused and dejected, I put a call trough go my mum and uncle @DeleMomodu who advised me to stay calm
- 3 I was abused and battered and I was threatened never to come back and pushed out of the compound with the aid of mobile policemen
- 2- after getting to the house at Baderinwa Alabi street Lekki phase one, my baby Imade was forcefully taken away from me
- On the 11th of July 2015, David and tricked me to Coco Adeleke's house in Lekki phase one, he had requested I come over with our baby
- You are a disgrace @iam_Davido , you will regret this trust me..
- David, can't blv you did that.Disrespecting my uncle on Twitter ? What u stand to gain? Trying to gain public sympathy cos you are a celeb?
Sophia Momodu 
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