Tiwa Savage Vs Davido: Police Investigate Petition Between Singers

The Lagos State Police have officially confirmed and are looking into the petition by Nigerian singer and songwriter Tiwa Savage over alleged bullying and threats to her life by Grammy nominee David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido.
The single mom accused Davido of using derogatory language in response to her association with his baby mama, Sophia Momodu.

According to The Punch, on Tuesday evening, January 11, Benjamin Hundeyin, the public relations officer for the Lagos police, confirmed that an investigation into the accusations had been launched.

“I can confirm that we received the petition. We have begun an investigation,” he said.

Entertainment Digest reports that Savage, in the petition dated January 9, addressed to the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Adegoke Fayoade, accused Davido of uttering disrespectful words in reaction to a post that included herself and the singer’s baby mama, Sophia Momodu’s Instagram story.

The singer explained how she expressed disappointment at Davido’s threats and reminded him of how she stood by his family, especially when he lost his son.

She, however, claimed to have thereafter received calls from mutual connections seeking to know what she did to upset Davido and also questioning her relationship with Sophia.

The petition read in part, “I am writing to bring to your attention a distressing situation involving myself and Adeleke.

“On December 23, I made a post that included myself and Sophia Momodu’s Instagram Story, a feature on Instagram that allows you to put up a post for twenty-four hours, and Adeleke sent messages to my manager, who’s also part of his management team, saying 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.”

Savage further said the actions of Davido were unethical and could be viewed as a direct threat to her rights to life, privacy, and dignity as guaranteed in Chapter 4 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended).

According to her, this is beginning to feel like some form of online and offline harassment, not just to me but also to members of my team.

“The actions of David Adeleke are unethical and can be viewed as a direct threat to my rights to life, privacy and dignity 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.

“I, therefore, would like to make this complaint and state that in the event that anything untoward or harmful were to happen to me or any member of my family, I will like the members of the Nigerian Police Force to hold David Adeleke responsible.