“My son not the father of this child,” Davido’s dad breaks silence on paternity controversy
Billionaire businessman Adedeji Adeleke, father of music star Davido, has stepped into the long-standing paternity dispute involving his son and a family based in Ibadan.
The issue resurfaced after a teenage girl, Anu Adeleke, shared an open letter on Instagram, claiming she had suffered intense bullying due to an unresolved paternity allegation.
In the letter, she appealed to Davido, whose real name is David Adeleke, to undergo a DNA test to confirm her identity.
Responding to the claim, the singer denied the allegation, stating that five DNA tests had already been carried out.
However, Ayo Labinjoh, the teenager’s mother, disputed Davido’s account, alleging that he was untruthful about the tests and accusing his father of being involved in falsified DNA results.
Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Adedeji Adeleke dismissed the claim, insisting that Davido is not Anu’s father.
The billionaire explained that the matter dates back to 2014 when he received a letter from a lawyer in Ibadan alleging that Davido had fathered a child, accompanied by photo collages.
According to Adeleke, he personally arranged the first DNA test in response to the allegation. He stated that all five tests conducted between 2015 and 2020, with samples sent to South Africa for analysis, produced the same outcome — a 0.00% probability of paternity.
“I received a letter in 2014 from a lawyer in Ibadan alleging that my son David, saw somebody pregnant and abandoned the person with the child,” he said.
“So when I went to the hospital, I went there myself. The hospital told me that they do not actually do the DNA test in-house, but there’s a clinic that they partner with.
“They will invite you to take samples of both the child and the father. But these samples will be sent to South Africa for analysis. A laboratory in South Africa, because it’s not done in Nigeria.
“So David, myself, and Lati met them at Vadik Hospital. We went upstairs, and the Indian doctor said, you allow only David, myself, the grandma, the mother of the baby, and the child.
“I was given one, and the grandma was given another one. And at the end of the whole story, they wrote here that the probability of paternity 0.00%.
“And the mom asked the lab guy, what does this mean? He said, it means that David is not the father of this child. And she was really disappointed. She broke down. She was crying, the grandmother.”