Famous award winning Nigerian singer, David Adeleke, widely known as
Davido, has finally released a statement and the statement states that late Umueke Tagbo
never entered his car.
Read statement below:
“Our attention as solicitors to Mr. David Adeleke aka
Davido, has been drawn to statements and comments both on the social,
electronic and print media including but not limited to a very recent
publication by national daily, wherein various statements credited to the
Acting Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Mr. Edgal Imohimi, insinuating
inter alia that our client has a case to answer in the unfortunate demise of
one Mr. Tagbo Umeike.
“The said publications have all caused our client; Mr. David
Adeleke (otherwise known as Davido), a lot of undue embarrassment thus
necessitating the need to present the facts as they stand, since the
unfortunate incidence is now in the public domain.
“First of all we wish to state that our client was never
arrested but rather made himself available to assist the police in its
investigation and after a satisfactory explanation, he was allowed to go.
“It is imperative to state that the evidence and footage
available to the Police discloses the chain of events leading to the discovery
of the remains of Mr. Tagbo Umeike do not in any way incriminate our Client,
but rather absolves him of any criminal culpability; a fact that the Police is
aware of.
“For the records, we wish to state that our Client has not
been found culpable for the death of Mr. TagboUmeike, and this was earlier
communicated by the police in a closed meeting involving the Acting
Commissioner of Police, Lagos, Davido, the family of the deceased and one
Caroline Danjuma who claims to be girlfriend of the deceased.
“Our client was also not involved in the untimely death of
the deceased, nor did he give any instructions to anyone to ‘dump’ the corpse
of Mr. TagboUmeike anywhere. Further, and as a matter of fact, we wish to state
that the deceased did not step a foot, even for a second, in any of our
Client’s vehicles on the evening of this sad series of events.
“The facts that can be distilled from the CCTV footage
obtained from “Shisha Room” are that on or about 12:23 am in the early hours of
Tuesday the 3rd of October, 2017 our Client got ready to leave the premises of
the “Shisha Room”, where he had gone to earlier in the company of some of his
friends to celebrate the birthday of one Clarks Adeleke.
“Again, we reiterate our client arrived at the Shisha Room
in his vehicle with his friends and the deceased arrived about one hour later
in his own vehicle. The CCTV footage obtained from the ‘Shisha Room’ captured
our Client and some others, including the deceased all standing close to our
Client’s vehicle as he prepared to leave after the drinks and celebrations.
“The deceased is seen in that footage to be in a very
drunken and intoxicated state as he was staggering and falling on the people
around him. Our Client tried to convince the deceased person to get into his
vehicle in his drunken state so as to take him home safely, but this overture
on our Client’s part was declined by the deceased.
“The CCTV footage further revealed that our Client drove out
of the premises of ‘Shisha Room’, while the deceased went back into the ‘Shisha
Room’ in the company of most of the people who were all at the car park at the
time of our Client’s departure.
“After departing from the ‘Shisha Room’ our Client honored
an invitation to a bar at Oniru Beach and subsequently went on to DNA Night
Club. Regrettably, while in DNA Night Club with some friends, he received the
tragic news of the death of the deceased.
“It is unfortunate that the stories making the news on the
print, electronic and social media seek to portray our Client as a liar and a
callous friend. We wish to state unequivocally on behalf of our Client, that he
was not present at the time of the death of the deceased, neither did he give
anyone directives or instructions to take the remains of the deceased to the
general hospital or to the morgue.
“Our Client had no knowledge of the deceased’s movement
after he last saw him at the ‘Shisha Room’. Rather, it was friends of the
deceased (who out of concern for the deceased) and without our Client’s
knowledge drove the deceased in (the deceased’s car) to the hospital, while our
Client’s police details escorted the deceased’s car in our Client’s Hilux Pilot
truck.
“This they did, because they knew the deceased to be their
Boss’ friend and were merely helping a fellow human being who was in need of
help.
“Our Client maintains that he has not in any way lied about
what he knows about the unfortunate incident, neither has his statement to the
Police been incoherent as unfortunately been presented in the media.
“Others involved have consistently maintained in their
respective statements to the Police that our Client did not instruct them to
take the remains of the deceased to the hospital, nor did the deceased enter
our Client’s vehicle at any point that evening, nor does he have a hand in the
death or transport of the remains of the deceased
“Our Client is presently grieving the loss of two of his
friends, and deeply condoles with their immediate families; and as his
Solicitors, it is our duty to set the records straight by bringing and putting
into the public space/ domain the truth of what actually transpired. “It is
disheartening that the image of our Client is being tarnished by mischief
makers whose jaundiced publications and statements have had a negative impact
on our Client’s emotional wellbeing, family and his fan base.
“We therefore appeal to the members of the public to desist
from jumping into uninformed conclusions about the unfortunate incidence, and
further appeal to the media to also desist from negative publications that seek
to project our Client in bad light.
“Our client in honour of the memory of his departed friends,
has suspended his next few shows and musical engagements. We commiserate with
the families of the deceased and pray that God will comfort them at a time like
this.”
He also released CCTV footages of the night’s events.
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