{"id":428373,"date":"2017-10-13T16:19:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T16:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/13\/davido-pleads-his-innocence-in-death-of-close-pal\/"},"modified":"2017-10-13T16:19:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T16:19:48","slug":"davido-pleads-his-innocence-in-death-of-close-pal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/13\/davido-pleads-his-innocence-in-death-of-close-pal\/","title":{"rendered":"Davido pleads his innocence in death of close pal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Friday, 13 October 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Graphic.com.gh <\/p>\n<p>2017-10-13<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/28117407.295.jpg\" alt=\"Davido Black W.jpeg\" title=\"Davido Black W.jpeg\" width=\"295\" height=\"169\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Davido said his late friend, DJ Olu never entered his car that night<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385179598\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385179598\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1507911588_891_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Embattled Nigerian afro-pop act, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has released a statement, through his lawyers, stating that his late friend, Tagbo Umeike, never entered his car.<\/p>\n<p>He also released CCTV footages of the night\u2019s events.<\/p>\n<p>The statement by Davido\u2019s lawyer, Norrison Quakers (SAN), entitled <\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>The Unfortunate Death of Tagbo Umeike; Davido\u2019s Story, reads in full:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur client was also not involved in the untimely death of the deceased, nor did he give any instructions to anyone to \u2018dump\u2019 the corpse of Mr. Tagbo Umeike 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\u2019s vehicles on the evening of this sad series of events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe facts that can be distilled from the CCTV footage obtained from \u201cShisha Room\u201d 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 \u201cShisha Room\u201d, where he had gone to earlier in the company of some of his friends to celebrate the birthday of one Clarks Adeleke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, 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 \u2018Shisha Room\u2019 captured our Client and some others, including the deceased all standing close to our Client\u2019s vehicle as he prepared to leave after the drinks and celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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\u2019s part was declined by the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CCTV footage further revealed that our Client drove out of the premises of \u2018Shisha Room\u2019, while the deceased went back into the \u2018Shisha Room\u2019 in the company of most of the people who were all at the car park at the time of our Client\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter departing from the \u2018Shisha Room\u2019 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Client had no knowledge of the deceased\u2019s movement after he last saw him at the \u2018Shisha Room\u2019. Rather, it was friends of the deceased (who out of concern for the deceased) and without our Client\u2019s knowledge drove the deceased in (the deceased\u2019s car) to the hospital, while our Client\u2019s police details escorted the deceased\u2019s car in our Client\u2019s Hilux Pilot truck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis they did, because they knew the deceased to be their Boss\u2019 friend and were merely helping a fellow human being who was in need of help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOthers 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\u2019s vehicle at any point that evening, nor does he have a hand in the death or transport of the remains of the deceased<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt 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\u2019s emotional wellbeing, family and his fan base.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe, 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur client in honour of the memory of his departed friends has suspended his next few shows and musical engagements. 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