Popular singer, David Adeleke, aka Davido, allegedly
assaulted a taxi driver in Lagos around August but his publicist, Valerie
Obaeze, claimed via an e-mail that the singer knew nothing about the incident.
But in a fresh twist to the saga, Hashiru Azeez, the employer
of the taxi driver, whose name is Femi Ajibola, said Davido said that the taxi
driver was assaulted by his cousins.
Azeez confirmed that he gave a Toyota Corolla to Ajibola on
hire purchase. “I gave it out to him on hire purchase. When Ajibola initially
told me about this matter, I did not believe him. Later, I went to Beni’s
Apartment in company with Sgt. Nuru Umar, who is the Investigating Police
Officer, and we found out that he was right.
“We went to the DPO and he called Davido’s father after I
took time to explain who the boy was,” Azeez said.
Immediately after the story was published, the young woman
who was conveyed in the cab to see Davido allegedly threatened Ajibola at the
taxi park where he operates.
“I got a call from Ajibola that Susan allgedly went to the
park to threaten him. She said that if he was claiming that he lost N100,000
during the incident with Davido, she would pay the money. Then she asked if the
cab driver had forgotten that she lost her cell-phone, which was valued at
N175,000.