Rave of the moment, David Adeleke a.k.a Davido (Omo Baba Olowo) is
being fingered as the mastermind of an alleged assault against a taxi
driver, Femi Ajibola.
The incident which is already casting doubt on the character and the
gentle mien of the young music act occurred on July 1,2012 at about
5:30pm according to the Saturday Punch.
Mr Ajibola, the cabbie in the course of making ends meet, received a
phone call from a lady who contracted him to take her places in his car
on an agreed sum.
Ajibola narrates …
At the onset, Cabbie thinking of Mega Bucks
“The lady introduced herself 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 the 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.
The bubble bursts, Cabbie gets the beating of his life
“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.
More Tales of Woe, Cabbie’s Money Goes Missing
“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.
Davido as needle in the haystack, Police and Cabbie’s Endless Search
“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.
Cabbie Learns the truth, the rich cannot be touched, so poor rat suffer in silence
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.
Cabbie Misery Worsens, Learns that the Police Is Your Friend Slogan is Not For The Poor
“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.
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