Afrobeats songstress Tiwa Savage has petitioned the Lagos State commissioner of police, Adegoke Fayoade, against her colleague and Grammy nominated David Adeleke popularly known as Davido over an alleged threat to life.
The petition dated January 9, 2024 centered on an allegation of threat to assault and grievous bodily harm by Davido.
The petition stated, “On December 23, I made a post which included myself and Sophia Momodu on my Instagram Story- a feature on Instagram which allows you to put up a post for 24 hours, and Mr. David Adeleke sent messages to my manager who is also part of his management team that I shouldn’t worry and should never say a word to him and that I was taunting him, uttering very disrespectful, malicious, and derogatory words to my person.
“I responded to Mr. David Adeleke’s message and told him not to reach out to me, especially as I feel like I have been there for him and his daughter, Imade, and more importantly when he lost his son.
“’This led to a barrage of calls and messages from their mutual connections, as they asked what she had done to Mr. David Adeleke that he is upset as she chose to maintain a relationship with Imade’s mother, Sophia Momodu, who he is having issues with and also painting the exchange to look like I was the aggressor.
“He has also told our mutual connections to warn me to ‘be careful in Lagos’ because he was going to f**k me up”.
She added that, ‘’The actions of Mr. David Adeleke are unethical and can be viewed as a direct threat to my rights to life, privacy, and dignity of my person as guaranteed in Chapter 4 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended), and are also in contravention of Section 24(2)(a) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, Etc.) Act, 2015.’’
In her petition, she stated that, “While making the complaint, if anything untoward or harmful were to happen to me or any member of my family, I would like the members of the Nigerian Police Force to hold Mr. David Adeleke is responsible.’’
As of the time of filing this report, no reaction was received from messages to the Lagos State police command public relation officer, Benjamin Hundeyin on the feud.
