“What a relief, my friend!”
“What are you relieved about?”
“It is this David Adeleke and Sophia Momodu soap
opera”.
“I tell you. It is a perfect subject for a good home
video. But what is your own?”
“No. Nothing. I am just relieved that the parties
involved have agreed to let peace reign”
“This will be about the third time I would hear of that
matter being resolved.”
“Well, I think the Momodus and the Adelekes should
just spare us. They should not forget there is a child
involved. They have suddenly made Imade Adeleke, the
most famous victim of Baby Mama-Baby Papa palaver
in Nigeria. Both Davido and Sophia and their
supporters’ clubs should please protect the baby, and
not make her a poster child for that kind of subject.”
“But me, I am enjoying the story oh.”
“Of course, too many sadists in our land enjoy other
people’s misery.”
“But really, it is a simple matter. “
“If it were that simple, the drama wouldn’t be so
entertaining. “
“What Davido wants, Davido gets. His father is rich. He
is a famous musician. Davido says he wants custody
of his daughter.”
“By taking her away from her mother by force, and
giving her to his half-sister, and threatening to travel
out of the country with the baby for medicals, without
the mother’s knowledge or consent? A seven-month
old baby, abducted at two months?”
“He gave reasons for that. He is talking about the
biological mother taking cannabis and risking his
daughter’s life”
“Cannabis?”
“Yes. Igbo”
“You seriously mean marijuana?”
“Yes, gbana as in Indian hemp. And Davido provided a
medical report to confirm his claim.”
“You saw the medical report. You are sure it is
genuine? Because I understand Sophia Momodu’s
lawyers have written the lab to produce the original
report of proof of drug abuse.”
“This their matter sef.”
“That’s why it is the child that is most important. I
don’t like the way they have turned the young girl into a
trophy to be fought over in a blood sport. We are in the
age of the internet. Twenty years from today, someone
could print out these funny details from the internet
memory bank. A father, grandfather and a half-sister
fighting a mother and her family over a baby and
making sordid claims: It is not a fight that can be easily
won.”
“I hear Davido says the Momodus cannot force him. He
may even release a special song to make his position
clear: No be by force.”
“Nobody is forcing him and his family to marry Sophia
Momodu. They are just saying custody should be
mutually agreed upon.”
“And he and his family are saying they want their
daughter properly brought up. They too have a point.
You should not take sides.”
“Ok. He is talking about Marijuana. When he was head
over heels in love with the Momodu girl, he didn’t smell
marijuana? I am sure if he was given Marijuana before
he was allowed to inhale, he would willingly exhale?
“He insists he was just 21 years old. And that he was
seduced by a full-grown woman who took advantage of
his youth and innocence.”
“Innocence, indeed. Was he raped? Did he not have a
relationship with her, and did he not showcase her
everywhere? He was 21. If he could be tricked at 21,
then he should live with the consequences. “
“You are taking sides. I know why. You are Dele
Momodu’s friend.”
“I am making uncommon sense. I am saying why is
Davido asking for Sophia Momodu’s birth certificate
after the fact? When the thing dey sweet them, they no
dey remember say na the thing wey fowl chop, him go
shit.”
“But you can’t force any man to marry a woman. Why
the girl too go carry belle for him junior brother? She
suppose know say Davido sef him na pikin. You no see
as him papa they follow am, make dem no carry big
yansh, big chest, fine face, cheat him son for Lagos”
“Him try well, well. But Davido, your boy, him no sabi
use rubber?”
“That girl look like person wey go gree rubber?”
“You dey craze”
“My own is that fathers should just keep an eye on
their sons and daughters. Let mothers also keep an eye
on their daughters. To avoid stories that break the heart
like this one, fine girls should just know that you can’t
detain any man with a baby. Er beg.”
“The values of the younger generation are different.”
“Some strict parents will still never have allowed this to
happen.”
“Some of these children are beyond control.”
“But we all suffer for it. This is why Ghanaian ladies
insist that Nigerian men are unreliable. They say they
use and dump women.”
“They say they…?”
“That’s what I hear.”
“They or we?”
“They.”
“You mean you have tried the Ghanaian market too?
Tell your brother something about ECOWAS romance?”
“You are an incurable gossip. Ashawo, somebody.”
“But talking seriously, it won’t be fair to condemn
Nigerian men. I think this is a thing about Nigerian
musicians. Those people too like women. Young
women, old women oh…any woman. Even the women
musicians sef, any man wey stand well… fiam”
“That is more important to them than their art? No
wonder many of them sing such trashy songs”
“There is even one of them who has seven children
from five women or so. And there is one they call
Whizkid”
“Superkid?”
“Whatever. But there is this kid musician who also has
a child from an older woman. There is this joke that
when his parents heard, they quickly took charge of the
situation, by telling the Baby Mama that while they
would accept the baby, everyone could see that the
Baby father is himself still a baby, too young to take
care of another baby, not to talk of a grown woman.
They pleaded that no woman should pakurumo..ko…”
“ Nice joke. I laughed. Him sef na pikin, he never grow
finish to take care of pikin. The girl fled.”
“That’s why I say it is a simple matter. Davido should
have consulted his seniors in this matter. That one that
has seven children from five women did it so well,
today all his Baby Mamas married or single, are
friends.”
“Wow. That’s a real Baba of the matter. Who is he?”
“I can’t mention his name. He is happily married now to
one of the Baby Mamas. I don’t want to be accused of
disrespecting another man’s wife.”
“Let Davido and Sophia just make peace for their
daughter’s sake. And when the matter is settled,
Davido knows where to go for tutorials if he really
wants to fish in this type of troubled waters.”
“But our musicians sha. They can fight?”
“Who again is fighting?”
“Olamide and Don Jazzy.”
“That face-off over awards at The Headies event? But
they have apologized”
“No. You don’t get the point. Why should artistes or
producers or label owners fight over awards? What I
have seen is that our young artistes are obsessed with
awards. They seem to be more interested in being
given a plaque than developing their real work. It is this
same problem with Nollywood actors. Any small award
is treated as if it is the Nobel Prize.”
“I see that too. It is the Grammy award disease.”
“No true artist should work with an eye on winning a
plaque. The best award is the acceptance of the market
place, not by a group of biased judges. If you are good
as an artist, you are good, nobody can take that away
from you.”
“Quite true. But it helps to have some plaques on the
wall, I must say.”
“How many of those musicians who were called the
best new acts on the block in the 80s and early 90s are
still making any impact today? When a work of art is
good, it will be evergreen; when an artist is good, his
talent will endure.”
“Some of these new kids are great though. World-class
talents. In the last few years, there has been an
explosion of real talent.”
“I want to hear more about talent. Great art. Not drama
kings and queens, not Baby Mamas and Lab Reports.”
“You are just old-fashioned. Controversy is part of art.
Life itself is about controversy. Controversy produces
great art. In the world of artists, all things work out as
raw material.”
“That’s why people insist artists are mad.”
“But it is not only artists that generate or attract
controversy. Politicians do.”
“I know. Controversy is the soul of politics, but here it
produces stress and oftentimes, tragedy.”
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Why is this place under politics?

If the senior ex baby daddy now married catch you for this talk ehn