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Just last week, news made rounds that
popular singer, Davido, impregnated a 24-year-old Georgia University
undergraduate named, Amanda. This week, the young lad is in another
paternity issue as another young lady, Ayotomide Labinjo, has stepped
forward alleging that the ‘Dami Duro’ singer is the father of her
daughter, three-year-old Aanuoluwapo.
In an exclusive chat with Saturday Beats, the 26-year-old lady alleged she had a sexual affair with the singer in 2013 and she got pregnant and had a baby girl.
Ayotomide alleged the pop singer had
abandoned her and the baby and has refused to take up the responsibility
of “taking care of our child.”
Labinjo alleged she met Davido at a
night club in Ibadan in February 2013 where he approached her and spoke
glowingly of her beauty. She alleged they ended up sleeping in a hotel
that same night. She also alleged that a month later, Davido visited
Ibadan again for Gbenga Adeyinka’s Easter show and they hooked up again
for a night out and slept together at a hotel in the upscale Iyaganku
area of the city.
According to her, communication between them was intact until she told him that she was pregnant at the end of March 2013.
Labinjo said, “In February 2013, I met
Davido at a club in Ibadan and he approached me and said he liked me. We
became friends and got along. He only came to have a good time then. We
left the club in his Range Rover Sports for a hotel around Challenge in
Ibadan where we slept together. I left him there the following morning.
Before then, I had no boyfriend so I was not used to going out but my
friend invited me to the club that night.
“We only met twice in Ibadan and we
slept together on both occasions. The third time I would see him again
was when I and my mother went to his house in Lagos more than a year
after the birth of the baby. He preferred to call me Enitan because that
is my other name.
“When I told him I was pregnant at the
end of March 2013, he said I should keep it but the following morning,
he blocked me from his Blackberry Messenger list. I could not reach him
throughout the period I was pregnant. On each of the days we met in
Ibadan, he had a police and three body guards with him.
“On the day the baby girl was being
named, he added me again on his BBM and I sent him her pictures. He
asked me what I wanted and I told him that he should take up the
responsibility of the child. But he blocked me from his contact list
again the next morning. We named the baby Aanuoluwapo but he preferred
to call her Vero and anytime I asked for anything, he would embarrass
me.
“My mother was furious about his
attitude so she wrote a letter to his father but he did not reply until
our lawyer, the late Bamidele Aiku, wrote to him. That was when his
father arranged for a DNA test and we went to Lagos for the test.”
But then, a copy of the test carried out
at Clina-Lancet Laboratories, Babatunde Jose Street, Victoria Island,
Lagos on September 2, 2014, showed that Davido was ‘excluded’ from being
the biological father of the child.
However, Labinjo disputed the result.
According to her, she alleged she saw Davido giving a ‘big’ envelope
containing lots of money to one Alex Sogbola who conducted the test when
she entered his office, alleging that the technologist was induced or
compromised.
Backing her daughter’s allegations,
Labinjo’s mother, Ropo, said she went to Lagos with her daughter to see
Davido’s father, Adedeji Adeleke, in respect of the DNA test. According
to her, the meeting was arranged after series of attempts to meet
Adeleke and following the involvement of her family lawyer. She added
that her husband, a professor of sociology at the University of Ibadan,
died 16 years ago, leaving her and two children behind.
She said, “I wrote a letter to Davido’s
father but there was no reply until our lawyer wrote to him. When he
called me, I explained what happened between my daughter and his son and
he arranged for the DNA. He said his son told him that he did not know
my daughter.
“He later sent his driver to Ibadan to
bring us to Lagos for the test. After meeting him, he told the driver to
take us to Davido’s house. We met him and his brother Wale, his cousins
B.Red and Shina. Shina told him he would not be a party to this
(paternity tussle).
“From there, we went to a hospital,
Davido was in another car. I was suspicious of the whole set up because
there was no indication that the facility could handle DNA test. My
daughter was called upstairs with Davido and the child. My daughter was
left outside a door but out of curiosity, she opened the door and saw
Davido giving lots of money to the doctor after his father had already
paid for the DNA test.
“Davido and the baby’s blood samples
were only taken so I asked the doctor why he did not take that of my
daughter because Davido’s father had told me that he paid for the three
people at N65,000 each. They asked us to come back after two weeks but
the result came out after seven days. Davido’s father sent a car to
bring us to Lagos again for the result. Davido had left the country
then. The result showed that Davido was not the father but my findings
after that showed that only blood test was carried out and not DNA
test.”
The widow said having lived in London
before and having done DNA test before, she was sure that the test
carried out was not a DNA. She said he had told Davido’s father that
when she has the money, she would go to a government hospital to conduct
another DNA.
“I have written Chief Adeleke to do me a
favour by presenting Davido on the day of the test. From what I know,
hair sample or saliva swab and not only blood sample are used for DNA
test,” she said.
When Saturday Beats paid a
visit to Clina-Lancet Laboratories and had a chat with Sogbola, the
young man said he remembered the case and the test result was genuine.
He said it would be quite impossible for
him to be dubious with a DNA result as the samples were taken to their
South African branch for testing.
Sogbola said that he had handled all
Davido’s DNA tests and so far, he has never had any problems. He also
denied ever collecting any money from the music star.
He said, “I remember the case. If I
should check the system, I am sure I would still have the details. We
also have a sister company in South Africa where the blood samples were
tested and if you go to South Africa, you would get the exact same
result we gave her here in Nigeria. I have every record and if I bring
my records out, I would show you the picture of the lady when she came,
the baby’s picture and Davido’s own as well. I remember the lady’s
mother. They came in from Ibadan and the samples were not taken here. It
was done in Verdic Hospital in Lekki, they paid for home service so I
had to go and take the sample from Verdic Hospital. We gave the result
out and the day it was out, I cannot remember if the lady was there but
Davido’s father collected the result from me. I remember the girl said
she was in school and I asked her where she met Davido but I could not
keep asking questions because it was none of my business. He might have
come for a show in her school and something happened between them. Even
her mother’s ring tone then was Davido’s song. Even Davido’s father said
that he had been investing some money in them but they should give him
some time to get the DNA done so that they could take charge of the
child. That was what he said. Before the test was conducted, the man had
been sending money to them. He sent a car to pick them from Ibadan for
the test.
“The second DNA that was done for
Davido’s baby, Imade, I also conducted the test. I can tell you that I
have never collected any huge sum from Davido ever since I have come in
contact with him. He has never given me even N2,000 despite the fact
that he has money. I don’t know what the girl wants but if it is another
DNA, then that is between her and Davido. She can have a re-test
anywhere else in the world. I am sure she has a copy of that result.
Even if there is a foul play here, would I do it as well with the people
in South Africa? If I do a foul play with any DNA result, it would not
only affect us here in Nigeria but also our office in South Africa. So
if they are suing us here, they are also suing our branch in South
Africa,” he said.
When Davido was contacted through his manager, Asa Asika, via an email exchange, he simply said that Labinjo’s claim is false.
He said, “Apologies for the delayed
response, I have been flying. This is not a true story, thanks for
reaching out to clarify. Thanks.”