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  • Bereaved Davido steps out for the first time since son’s passage with swollen eyes

    Bereaved Davido steps out for the first time since son’s passage with swollen eyes

    Popular Nigerian singer, David Adeleke, better known as Davido has stepped out for the first time since the passing of his beloved son, Ifeanyi Adeleke.

    The crooner was spotted at a Barber’s Shop where he went to have a clean shave; the first since the shocking death of little Ifeanyi.

    Looking all teary and worn out, Davido who tried to cover his pains still had red and swollen eyes.

    A video circulating online shows the singer waving and smiling at the videographer, yet still covered in deep pain.

    It would be recalled that the Lagos state police command is continued to detain two out of the eight domestic staff of singer Davido who were invited for questioning over the demise of his three-year-old son, Ifeanyi Adeleke.

    The toddler unfortunately drowned in a swimming pool inside his father’s Banana Island apartment on Monday, October 31. Subsequently, eight of the domestic staff were invited for questioning.

    The spokesperson of the Lagos state police command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said following serious interrogation, six of the domestic staff have been released while the chef and the nanny have been detained.

    It was earlier revealed that the Nanny was with late Ifeanyi and the Chef came to join them before the ugly incident occurred.

    The Nanny was said to have moved slightly away to receive a call. When she returned, she couldn’t find Ifeanyi and assumed he was with the Chef but the Chef said he had left Ifeanyi with her.

    They began to frantically look for Ifeanyi all over the house for close to 20 mins until a security guard spotted him in the pool.

    No one could explain how the boy got into the pool. Davido and Chioma were said to have returned from their trip to Ibadan, Oyo State to the devastating news.

  • Ifeanyi Adeleke: There was a prophecy, Davido’s foster brother, gives a new twist

    Ifeanyi Adeleke: There was a prophecy, Davido’s foster brother, gives a new twist

     

    …says a revelation was given to parents about his death but they took it for granted

     

    Music star, Davido’s foster brother, Emeka Senator has made new revelations on the death of Little Ifeanyi Adeleke, saying there was a revelation but parents ignored it.

    Senator who confirmed the death of Ifeanyi on his Instagram page was among the first to confirm the heartbreaking news.

    Taking to Instagram, Davido’s foster brother shared a photo of the deceased, as he recalled a prophecy about the tragic incident.

    He claimed that a revelation was given to the parents about his death, but they took it for granted.

    Emeka apologised to God for ignoring the warnings.

    “The revelation was taken for granted. We are truly lost”.

    The singer’s first son passed away on Monday, October 31, 2022.

    The 3-years-old Ifeanyi got drowned a few days after his birthday which was on October 20.

    “The boy was inside water for too long and they pulled him out and rushed him to the hospital,” a family source said under anonymity to await an official statement.

  • Davido arrest workers at his house over son’s death

    Davido arrest workers at his house over son’s death

     

    Popular Singer David Adedeji Adeleke also known as ‘Davido’ has reportedly arrested some of the people at his Banana Island house following the death of his son.

    Recall that the singer’s first son with Fiancée Chioma Avril Rowland
    passed away on Monday, October 31, 2022.

    According to reports, the distraught singer has been removed from Evercare Hospital, where his son was pronounced dead and is currently at his father’s house.

    News about Davido ‘s son’s death
    Ifeanyi Adeleke hit the intenet last night.

    Ifeanyi Adeleke was drowned a few days after his third birthday which was on October 20.

    A source close to the family stated; “The boy was inside water for too long and they pulled him out and rushed him to the hospital,” the family source said under anonymity to await an official statement.

    “He was rushed to Evercare Hospital in Lekki where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

    It was further gathered his parents, Davido and Chioma had traveled for a family gathering to Ibadan yesterday. They had left Ifeanyi with his minders who can’t explain how he entered the pool without being noticed and drowned.
    Davido bond with Ifeanyi.

    Prior to Ifeanyi’s death, Davido earlier in the day was spotted teaching him how to swim.

    In videos which made the rounds on social media, the Electricity crooner was seen inside the big pool in his mansion with Ifeanyi.

    Davido carried the three-year-old boy and made him flap his legs in the water as he gave him instructions on what to do.

    The music star carried Ifeanyi around in the pool as the energetic boy continued to flap his legs.

    Davido who was obviously impressed by his son’s performance was heard commenting on how he was a fast learner.

    1. He said: “This one go learn quick”.
      Before his rather sad and shocking death, Ifeanyi’s parents; Chioma and Davido had celebrated his third birthday in grand style.
  • Davido unfollows first and second baby mamas on his image-sharing Instagram

    Davido unfollows first and second baby mamas on his image-sharing Instagram

    Nigerian singer and record producer, David Adeleke, aka Davido, has unfollowed both his first and second baby mamas on his image-sharing platform, Instagram.

    Davido has three baby mamas and they are Sophia Ajibola Momodu, Amanda, and Chioma Avril Rowland.

    This was as he publicly displayed his affection for his third baby mama and fiancee, Chioma Rowland, as they rocked a matching outfit.

    The couple seems to have doubled the dosage of their bond following their continuous public display of affection.

    In a recent video shared by the singer on his Instagram story, Davido and Chioma locked lips as they radiate love in matching outfits.

    The affection for one another continued as the duo posed as a couple while in the same car.

    The term baby mama used to be a demeaning word, but not anymore. Rather, it has become more or less a thing of joy as most women desire to have a child with famous and rich people.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) had earlier reported that Davido ordered a G-Wagon for Chioma.

    This was revealed as the trending video of the SUV and Davido’s Instagram message to a car dealer showing Davido making the order, made the rounds on social media.

    The singer in 2018, also bought a Porsche valued at N45 million for Chioma, to mark her 23rd birthday.

    However, Nigerians on social media have been reacting to the development, with some alleging that Chioma may have hypnotized Davido

    foreveraminatuu; “Chioma what did you add to your stew. We need the recipe.”

    the_dark_guy1; “worldly things Chioma renewed her sacrifice recently.”

    jayford.beauty_world; “Another wash to get her pregnant. I wonder what it will be called this time.”

    miriam.jacob; “We see wetin pass this one during assurance o, I hope this will end in praise.”

    mummyteemotivates040829; “At least Chioma is the only lady he openly dated and acknowledge. The others na one night stands and underground work.”

  • Abuja Court Strikes out Suit Seeking to Void Adeleke’s Nomination as Governor-Elect

    Abuja Court Strikes out Suit Seeking to Void Adeleke’s Nomination as Governor-Elect

     

    The Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday struck out a suit filed by Awoyemi Oluwatayo Lukman, seeking to void the nomination of the Osun State as the governor-elect, Ademola Adeleke, as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
    Lukman had dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), PDP and Adeleke before the court seeking order to void and set aside the submission of Adeleke’s name to INEC on grounds of alleged unlawful action.

    Lukman argued that Adeleke’s name was hurriedly submitted by PDP on March 11, 2022, as against between March 14 and 18 provided in the INEC guidelines.

    He maintained that having submitted Adeleke’s name before the period fixed by INEC, the court should declare the submission illegal, unlawful, null and void and be set aside.

    He also claimed that INEC must be bound by its official guidelines and that anything done outside the guidelines should be considered to be against the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022.

    However, Daily Post reports that in his judgment, Justice Obiora Egwuatu struck out the suit on the ground that the said Awoyemi Oluwatayo Lukman lacked locus standi to have instituted the case.

    Justice Egwuatu also held that the suit was statute barred having been fixed outside the 14 days stipulated by Section 285 of the 1999 Constitution that all pre-election suits must be filed within 14 days whereas, the instant suit was filed after 28 days.

  • My victory cannot be stolen through backdoor – Osun governor-elect, Adeleke

    My victory cannot be stolen through backdoor – Osun governor-elect, Adeleke

    The Osun governor-elect, Ademola Adeleke has urged his supporters to keep calm ahead of the election petition tribunal and that his victory cannot be stolen.

    Recall that the All Progressives Congress in Osun State and the state governor, Adegboyega Oyetola had on Friday submitted a petition at the Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Osogbo to challenge the victory of Senator Ademola Adeleke.

    The chairman of the party, Gboyega Famodun, had on Thursday, hinted that the APC was ready to drag the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and its candidate to Election Petition Tribunal.

    In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed on Saturday, Adeleke declared that the July 16th election was one of the most transparent elections in recent Nigerian history.

    Adeleke also assured that the people’s mandate freely given against overwhelming odds will be defended and validated.

    The statement revealed that the “PDP legal team is taking appropriate action on the filing. I call on my supporters at home and abroad to remain calm as this divine victory cannot be stolen through the backdoor

    “I urge the good people of Osun State who voted massively to reject bad governance to remain calm. We are doing the needful to defend their mandate. We will do all within our powers to ensure judicial validation of our victory as this is an election globally certified as a great advancement in electoral transparency and integrity.

    “We also want to reaffirm our faith in the judiciary as a bastion of hope and justice. We have unshakeable trust in God that this election petition shall end in another landmark victory for us and the resilient people of Osun state,” the statement concluded.

  • OSUN ELECTION: Oyetola asks Tribunal to annul Adeleke’s victory over forged certificates

    OSUN ELECTION: Oyetola asks Tribunal to annul Adeleke’s victory over forged certificates

    Governor of Osun State, Adegboyega Oyetola, has demanded that the election of the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ademola Adeleke, be annulled over a forged certificate.

     

    Oyetola, in his petition to the Election Petition Tribunal in Osogbo, pointed out that the election was fraught with certain irregularities.

     

    According to him, Adeleke ought not to have been declared winner as he was not qualified to have contested the election in the first place, having submitted forged certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

     

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that Adeleke was returned elected by the INEC, after defeating his closest challenger, Oyetola, and 13 other candidates, scoring a total of 403, 371.

     

    Oyetola got 375, 027 votes and won in 13 Local Government Areas of the state to come second in the election.

     

    A member of Oyetola’s legal team, Kunle Adegoke (SAN), in an interview, immediately after filing the petition in Osogbo said the governor has assembled 50 lawyers including 10 Senior Advocates of Nigeria, listing 13 grounds on which premises Adeleke should be disqualified.

     

    Other key members of the legal team included Prince Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), Chief Akin Olujumi (SAN), Prince Biodun Layonu (SAN/, Muritala Abdulrasheed (SAN).

     

    Adegoke said the election in many 749 polling units were fraught with irregularities.

     

    The legal team, he said, has established by the petition that the election in those 749 polling units across 10 Local Governments in Osun State was characterized by irregularities pertaining to overvoting.

     

    Adegoke said, “We have nothing less than 50 lawyers, including 10 SANs that we cannot list all of them, so we have listed about 20 lawyers in the petition. We have 13 reliefs.

    OSUN: Oyetola asks Election Petition Tribunal to annul Adeleke's victory over forged certificates

     

    “What we are contesting is that the election is fraught with certain irregularities by which the person declared winner ought not to have been declared and the petitioner, Alhaji Isiaka Gboyega Oyetola ought to have been declared the winner on the ground that Nurudeen Ademola Adeleke was not qualified to have contested the election in the first place, having submitted a forged certificate to INEC.

     

    “The second is that the election in 749 polling units was fraught with irregularities and the election in those units ought to have been nullified. All the polling units mentioned are in 10 Local Governments, out of 30.

     

    “So, if the election in those units is nullified and the votes are canceled, then Alhaji Isiaka Gboyega Oyetola will have comfortable requirements of the constitution to be declared winner of the election.”

     

    Asked when the tribunal would commence sitting, Adegoke said he does not know.

     

    In his words: “We don’t know yet but now that we have filed, it is expected that once the PDP is served, their lawyers will file their own defence then we will file a reply to their defence. That is when the tribunal will be able to give a date.

     

    “Except if either of the two parties have an application that requires urgency, only then can the Tribunal have an emergency sitting but as of now nobody knows the date”, he said.

     

    Adegoke had on July 19 noted that Oyetola may line up over 50 lawyers to contest the declaration of Adeleke as winner.

     

    “We are still reviewing documents and the legal team is actually working. In an election of this nature, the documents will be so many; so it is important to look at them critically before we take a decision and that is exactly what we are working on right now.

     

    “Dr Biodun Layonu (SAN), is the leader of the team. The legal team is not complete yet because there are so many others that will still come in.

     

    “In the meantime, the two members of the legal team we can reveal is Dr Biodun Layonu and Kunle Adegoke. Others that may come in are people, we may not know but as soon as we are ready to move, we will notify the press.

     

    “The membership can’t be determined as many lawyers are interested in joining the team. You know election petition is a special case. So, we allow as many lawyers that are interested to come in. We may run into 50 or more membership,” he asserted.

     

    The Chairman, Media Management Team of Osun PDP, Prince Diran Odeyemi, on his part, hinted that the party was not losing sleep over the petition.

     

    He explained that many of APC leaders that were saying that the result of the election should be challenged before the tribunal, lost election in their wards, saying APC should have adopted the spirit of sportsmanship regarding the result of the poll.

     

    “It is so unfortunate that APC did not believe in the spirit of sportsmanship. We would have expected them to congratulate Adeleke. Many of them, who are championing the cause of tribunal lost in their polling units and their wards.

     

    “We wonder what they want to take to the Tribunal now. We are not afraid or losing sleep, Oyetola can’t win. We will meet them at the tribunal. Regarding the allegation of a forged certificate, there is nothing like that.

     

    “They are only looking for an avenue to come back to the government through the backdoor. PDP is thorough political party that looks at all the certificates presented by the candidates,” Odeyemi opined.

  • BREAKING: Adeleke wins again, he’s PDP authentic candidate – Appeal Court rules

    BREAKING: Adeleke wins again, he’s PDP authentic candidate – Appeal Court rules

    Senator Ademola Adeleke, again wins as the Court of Appeal sitting in Akure, Ondo State, on Wednesday, dismissed a suit filed by Dotun Babayemi, questioning his being fielded by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), for last Saturday’s election, which he won against the incumbent, Gboyega Oyetola.

    Babayemi had lost at the Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, where he took the governor-elect, seeking to be declared as the PDP candidate for the July 16 governorship election in Osun state, and had gone upstairs after losing the bid.

    It was the fallout of the two factions of the party, which had on March 8, 2021, conducted separate governorship primaries with Babayemi winning the primary election held at the Children and Women Development Centre in Osogbo, while Adeleke prevailed over that held at Osogbo City Stadium, which was backed by the PDP National Working Committee and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), leading his being fielded on the ballot for the election.

  • Osun: Adeleke reveals Aregbesola’s involvement to secure victory

    Osun: Adeleke reveals Aregbesola’s involvement to secure victory

    The Osun State governor-elect, Senator Ademola Adeleke has reacted to reports that that the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola worked for his victory

    Recalled Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Sunday, emerged the winner of the governorship election in Osun State, defeating the incumbent governor, Gboyega Oyetola.

    Aregbesola, who had a face-off with the All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidate Bola Tinubu, was said to have worked for the opposition party.

    However, speaking with Channels TV on Monday night, Adeleke said he never spoke with Aregbesola prior to the poll.

    He said, “I did not work with Aregbesola, I did not even speak to him, but I know some APC members and his allies that joined us. I can’t tell whether Aregbesola asked his associates to support me or not because I never had a conversation with him”.

    Asked to assess the election process, Adeleke said, “it is not easy to defeat an incumbent anywhere in the world.”

  • Osun election: People’s power ‘ll continue to triumph – Makinde

    Osun election: People’s power ‘ll continue to triumph – Makinde

    Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has congratulated Sen. Ademola Adeleke, on his victory at the just-concluded Osun governorship election.

    The congratulatory message is contained in a statement in Ibadan on Sunday by Mr. Taiwo Adisa, the Chief Press Secretary to the governor.

    Makinde hailed the people of Osun, saying that the power of the people will always triumph.

    The governor commended the teeming voters across the 30 local government areas of Osun for standing by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and staying resolute to ensure that their votes counted.

    According to him, Adeleke’s victory was similar to what happened in Oyo state in the 2019 governorship election when the people exercised their franchise in support of an opposition party.

    Makinde lauded  Adeleke, PDP members and Osun voters for remaining strong and unwavering throughout the electioneering period.

    “On behalf of the government and the good people of Oyo state, I congratulate the Osun governor-elect, Sen. Ademola Adeleke, and the people of Osun on this victory.

    “It is great to have a second PDP flag flying in the South-West and this victory teaches all politicians an important lesson- that truly, power resides with the people.

    “The power of the people will continue to triumph, the earlier politicians realise this fact, the better for our democracy.” Makinde said.