Around mid day today, Dr Adedeji Adeleke, the billionaire businessman and father of singer Davido has finally spoken up, intervening in the long lingering paternity dispute involving his son and an Ibadan-based family.
The dust and noise resurfaced when the teenage girl Anu Adeleke posted an open letter on Instagram stating she had been severely bullied due to an unresolved paternity claim.
She called on the singer, Davido, (David Adeleke), to take a DNA test to establish her identity.
Responding, the singer denied all the allegation, arguing that five separate DNA tests had already been conducted.
Ayo Labinjoh, the mother of Anu stepped in to claim Davido was lying about the DNA tests conducted. She went further to accuse Davido’s father of being complicit in doctored DNA results.
At a press conference on Wednesday, 21st 2026, Adeleke denied that Davido is the father of Anu.
The billionaire recounted that the issue began in 2014. He read out a lawyer’s letter he recieved from the grandmother of Anu, claiming Davido had fathered a child in Ibadan, accompanied by photo collages.
Premised on this claim, Adeleke said he arranged the first DNA test. He maintained that all five examinations, conducted between 2015 and 2020 at facilities that sent samples to South Africa for analysis, yielded the same result: a 0.00% probability of paternity.
“I received a letter in 2014 from a lawyer in Ibadan alleging that my son David, got 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.”
Dr Adeleke, expressed utter displeasure that despite all the tests and effort, the family still went on, with the help of Journalist Kemi Olunloyo, to continue to drag him and his family saying they need to do more tests as they were not satisfied with the ones already run.
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