If anything happens to me, hold Davido responsible — Tiwa Savage

Afrobeats songstress, Tiwa Savage, yesterday, filed a petition against David Adeleke popularly known as Davido over the alleged threat of assault and grievous bodily harm.

Tiwa Savage in a petition addressed to the Lagos Commissioner of Police, Fayoade Adegoke, said the Grammy-nominated megastar threatened to “f**k me up.”

She also alleged that Davido made a “direct threat to my rights to life, privacy and dignity of my person.”
The songstress also asked the police to “hold Davido responsible if any harm befalls me.”

The petition read in part: “I am writing to bring to your attention a distressing situation involving myself, Tiwatope Omolara Savage, popularly known as Tiwa Savage and Mr. David Adeleke popularly known as Davido.

“On December 23, I made a post which included myself and Sophia Momodu on my Instagram story- a feature on Instagram which allows you to put up a post for 24 hours, and Mr. David Adeleke sent messages to my manager who’s also part of his management team 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.

“The events of that day have also led to a barrage of calls and messages from our mutual connections, asking me what I did to Mr David Adeleke that he’s upset that I chose to maintain a relationship with Imade’s mother, Sophia Momodu, who he’s having issues with and also painting the exchange to look like I was the aggressor.

“He has also told our mutual connections to warn me to ‘be careful in Lagos because he was going to f**k me up. This is beginning to feel like some form of online and offline harassment not just to me but also members of my team.

“The actions of Mr David Adeleke are unethical and can be viewed as a direct threat to my rights to life, privacy and dignity of my person 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 to 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 Nigeria Police Force to hold Mr David Adeleke responsible.

“I am available to answer any questions or provide any additional information regarding this matter.”