DAVIDO SLAPS TAXI DRIVER OVER GIRLFRIEND

A taxi driver, Femi Ajibola, will never forget July 1, 2012 in a hurry. At about 5.30 pm on that day, he received a phone call
from a young woman in the Lekki area of Lagos
and had quickly answered the subsequent invitation to pick her up.

“The lady introduced her as Susie. She called me to come and pick her and her
friend. They told me to come pick them up at Mobolaji Estate near Lekki Second
Roundabout. Later, I took them to a hotel at Lekki Phase I to meet one of their
friends.
“From there we left for Beni Apartment in Victoria Island.
They said that I should wait for them and promised to be back soon. Not long
afterwards, one of the girls began to scream as she was coming towards my car.
Behind her, I saw David Adeleke (Davido) and four of his bouncers.

“The girl was running towards me. I think they men had
assaulted her. She said I should open the door for her so that she would enter.
I opened the door for her; as she was about to enter the car, Davido caught up
with her and slapped her face,” Ajibola said.
In a bid to save the girl from further assault, Ajibola switched on the engine
of his cab and was about to drive off when the youthful singer suddenly dealt
him a slap.
The cabbie said, “He left the girl and faced me. He said I was the one that
brought the girls, that I am their boyfriend. He knocked my face against the
steering wheel of the cab. This made blood begin to come out from my ear drums.
He seized my car keys and in the process, injured me.

“Before I knew what was going on, his four bouncers began to
beat me up. They beat me severely and took my car keys from me and chased me
away. This happened around 11 pm. I
went to report the matter at the Bar Beach Police Station, which was the
nearest one. I was asked to come back the next morning to report the case.”
Unfortunately, Ajibola had just taken delivery of the vehicle he was using for
his transport business and had not paid the dealer in full before the incident.
He said that the balance of N100,000 was in the car before the incident had
happened. In the whole confusion, he could not pick the money as he was ordered
to leave the car by the bouncers.
“I had taken delivery of the vehicle about two weeks before the incident. I had
paid my dealer N50,000 and the other N100,000 was in the car because I could
not pay it in the bank. The money was in the car and since they had sent me
away from the car, I could not retrieve it.

“The following day, I did not find the money in the cab.
They did not even let me wind the car windows up before they chased me out. I
noticed that the car was ransacked. I managed to obtain Davido’s phone number
and called him. But he did not pick his call. So I sent him a text message.
Thirty minutes after I sent him the message, someone picked up the call and
promised to pass the message to him. I did not get my car key throughout that
day. I went to the police station to file a report,” Ajibola said.
“When all efforts to contact Davido proved futile, the police had to go to
Susie. Unfortunately, she was of no help.”
“On the fourth day, I went to Susie’s house with the police. The ladies said
they were not the ones that beat me. They said the only help they could render
was to give me Davido’s address and that they had since settled their
differences. The whole point of the police visit was to use the girls to get to
Davido, but the girls made a phone call to an aunt of theirs and the policemen
left them, saying that they were not the ones that assaulted me,” the cab
driver said.

CRIME DIGEST learnt that the genesis of the fight was
because the singer was allegedly caught cheating on his girlfriend.
Ajibola continued, I learnt that Davido was dating one of the girls I picked
up. They went to his hotel room and caught him with another girl who was their
friend. This is what I learnt caused the fight. The police collected Davido’s
phone number and called him, but he kept asking them if they knew whose son he
was.
“He warned the policemen not to threaten or intimidate him. They in turn told
him that they were just inviting him for questioning and not to arrest him.
Since then, the effort to get him has not been forthcoming. I had to go to the
hospital because I was really injured. Davido gave me a blow to the ear which
made it to bleed.
“One day, the DPO of the station assured me that they would make sure they get
him. He was irritated by Davido’s boasting that he was immune to arrest. On
July 13, one Sharon Adeleke asked me to come and collect the key of my car at
1004. I told her to come and meet me at the police station. She did not turn up
till the DPO intervened.
“The DPO invited the Sharon Adeleke, she eventually came to drop the key of the
car. I told them that I could not just collect the key of the car without
documentation that they gave me the key of the car without a penny, though I
lost money and my car got damaged. When I said this, the DPO told me that I did
not look like someone that was worth N100,000.

“He said I have no proof that there was money in the car and
that all he was after was to retrieve my car keys for me. He said that if I
wanted to do anything I should go to court and he ordered me out of his office.
Till this moment I have not received my car keys or an apology from the
singer,” Ajibola said.
When contacted on the telephone, both Davido and the Divisional Police Officer
of Bar Beach police station, Fakeye Adegoke, refused to answer their calls nor
did they reply the text messages sent to them.
But Davido’s publicist, Valerie Obaze, denied her client’s involvement in the
incident.
“Davido has no knowledge of any incident involving the assault of a taxi driver
or the illegal seizure of his car. He does not condone violence of any sort and
will not be commenting on this untrue allegation,” she said via email
However, the Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide promised to get back
to CRIME DIGEST with the facts of the matter later