Sophia Momodu responds to Davido’s suit, lists 6 reasons why the artiste shouldn’t have custody of Imade

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.

• Davido sues baby mama, Sophia Momodu, seeks joint custody of their child

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.

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.

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