{"id":1240879,"date":"2022-11-01T15:17:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T15:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/01\/davidos-last-message-to-his-son-on-third-birthday\/"},"modified":"2022-11-01T15:17:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T15:17:16","slug":"davidos-last-message-to-his-son-on-third-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/01\/davidos-last-message-to-his-son-on-third-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Davido&#8217;s last message to his son on third birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Davido-shares-lovely-video-of-his-son-Ifeanyi-dancing-as.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>On Sunday, October 23, Davido and his girlfriend Chioma celebrated their son\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Ifeanyi Adeleke had just turned three years old and his parents were seemingly excited for the young boy they adore.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Instagram, Davido prayed to God to grant his son perfect health and pure happiness for as long as humanly possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou will grow to be greater than Me, Happy birthday, son David Ifeanyi Adedeji Adeleke Jr,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Chioma Rowland said a similar prayer for Ifeanyi and also prayed for God\u2019s blessings in his life.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cj8EYbDoL-n\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>Unfortunately a week after his birthday, Ifeanyi is dead.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>The three-year-old boy reportedly drowned in a swimming pool at their residence in the Banana Island area of Lagos State.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cj75qq8tpHQ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>Following the death, the Lagos State Police Command has confirmed that all members of the singer\u2019s domestic staff who were responsible for taking care of Ifeanyi are currently in police custody.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>Police spokesman Benjamin Hundeyin told the BBC that one of the couple\u2019s domestic staff called the police at 22:00 local time (21:00 GMT) on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed that eight members of staff had been invited in for questioning \u2013 and anyone with a case to answer would be arrested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are reviewing the CCTV cameras to get additional information about the circumstances of his death,\u201d Mr Hundeyin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis body has been deposited in the morgue. We are in touch with his parents. In fact, they were with us last night,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/davidos-last-message-to-his-son-on-third-birthday\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, October 23, Davido and his girlfriend Chioma celebrated their son\u2019s birthday. Ifeanyi Adeleke had just turned three years old and his parents were seemingly excited for the young boy they adore. In a post on Instagram, Davido prayed to God to grant his son perfect health and pure happiness for as long as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1240881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[159,140,2951,479],"class_list":["post-1240879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-birthday","tag-davidos","tag-message","tag-son"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}