Music star,
Davido, has apologised to Dele Momodu and his fans for his conduct over the
baby abduction drama which has rocked his plans and been in the news since
Tuesday.
“Mr. Dele
Momodu I Apologise but …U didn’t have to…,” the artist, who had engaged the
Ovation Magazine publisher in a war of words, tweeted minutes ago.
The music
star and his sister, Ashely, had on Tuesday been stopped from travelling to
Dubai with the child by immigration officials at the Murtala Muhammed International
Airport in response to a petition by Momodu that the child had been abducted.
Despite the
apology, the artist insisted the allegations against him were untrue, saying,
“All these lies being put on me … no be today … I have so much to say but in respect
for my daughter I will keep quiet … I apologise.”
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He thanked
his supporters and those “bashing” him, adding, “The truth will come out! Even
if I don’t keep her, she will grow up to know I fought for her.”
Sophia’s
lawyers had in a petition to the Director-General, National Agency for the
Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, alleged that the baby had been forcibly
taken from her on July 11 at Ashley’s house in Lekki after she was tricked into
going there.
The petition
also claimed that repeated efforts by Sophia to get her baby back since then
were unsuccessful, leaving her to turn to friends and her cousin, Dele Momodu,
for help.
The Ovation
Magazine publisher had accompanied Sophia to alert immigration officials,
sparking a war of words between the two.
Momodu took
to Instagram and Twitter, posting photos form the airport and mocking Davido
over his inability to use his influence to have his way.
“All the
phone calls to Abuja by Davido’s powerful family failed to impress the highly
professional officers at MMIA as they tried to travel illegally with a seven
month old baby they had seized from her mum months ago!” he wrote in a post.
Davido, who
had initially, expressed disappointment in Momodu, however, tweeted in the
early hours of Thursday, “I leave them for God.”
In another
tweet, he explained that he did not deserve all that was happening as all he
had ever done “is to love that baby”.
Earlier, an
angry David had told Momodu he should be ashamed of himself. “You should be
ashamed of yourself!! God bless you still,” he tweeted.
Momodu, who
also put up a screen shot of a chat between David and Sophia in which the
artiste insulted him, said in a post, “No one no matter how wealthy or powerful
has the right to forcefully detach a baby from her mum… Nigeria is not that
lawless!”
Sophia, who
says she has been denied access to her daughter for months, is however worried
that the baby could be sneaked out of the country via land.
She has also
asked the Department of State Security, the police and the Lagos State
Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, to intervene in the matter.
Momodu has
yet to respond to the apology.
Courtesy: Punchng
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