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In
the
ongoing
court
battle
between
Davido
and
his
first
baby
mama,
Sophia
Momodu,
the
latter
has
responded
to
Davido’s
suit.
Sophia
Momodu
claims
her
estranged
lover
is
“too
busy”
to
have
custody
of
their
daughter,
Imade.
The
estranged
lovers
appeared
before
Justice
Bashua’s
family
court
in
Yaba
in
Lagos
State
on
Friday,
July
5,
2024
for
the
first
hearing
in
the
custody
suit
initiated
by
the
Afrobeats
artiste.
Momodu
was
listed
as
the
sole
respondent
in
a
suit
which
Davido
filed
on
April
17,
2024.
The
singer
dragged
her
baby
mama
to
court
seeking
unfettered
and
unrestricted
access
to
Imade.
The
award-winning
artist
had
accused
the
mother
of
his
first
child
of
making
demands
intended
to
frustrate
his
efforts
to
see
Imade.
with
Sophia
and
Imade
Davido
in
his
suit
claimed
that
although
he
had
been
fulfilling
his
fatherly
duties
to
Imade
including
paying
her
school
fees,
providing
transportation
and
even
accommodation,
Momodu
has
consistently
denied
him
access
to
his
daughter.
However,
responding
to
the
lawsuit
in
a
statement,
Momodu
claimed
that
Davido
had
abandoned
their
child
for
the
past
two
years.
She
also
alleged
that
the
singer
has
since
refrained
from
fulfilling
his
financial
obligations
to
his
daughter,
leaving
her
to
solely
shoulder
expenses
including
rent,
living
and
travel
costs,
healthcare,
and
all
other
related
expenses.
While
making
her
case
in
court
on
Friday,
July
5,
Momodu’s
legal
team,
led
by
Anthony
SAN
clearly
provided
six
reasons
and
explained
to
the
Judge
why
the
court
cannot
grant
Davido
custody
to
Imade.
“The
Applicant
cannot
take
proper
care
of
our
daughter
because
he
lives
a
controversial
lifestyle
(negative
media
attention)
that
will
expose
our
daughter
to
more
negative
trauma
at
her
tender
age.
“The
Applicant
in
his
role
as
an
artiste
always
travels
and
allows
many
unsavoury
male
adults
around
him
and
his
house,
who
will
not
be
a
good
influence
on
an
impressionable
young
female
child,
like
our
daughter.
“The
Applicant
disagreed
with
child
therapy
as
the
Applicant
has
been
estranged
from
our
daughter
for
a
while
and
safely
and
sustainably
establishing
a
meaningful
presence
in
our
daughter’s
life
is
paramount.
“The
Applicant
is
an
artist
who
always
travels
around
the
world
as
mandated
by
his
career
and
cannot
possibly
be
with
our
daughter
at
crucial
times.
“The
Applicant
is
married
to
another
woman,
and
they
live
together.
The
proper
upbringing
of
our
daughter
by
another
cannot
be
guaranteed.
“The
fact
that
the
Applicant
lost
his
son
in
his
house
in
rather
unfortunate
and
questionable
circumstances
shows
that
our
daughter
cannot
be
placed
in
the
custody
of
the
Applicant,”
Momodu
argued.