HERE ARE SEVEN KEY POINTS OF DAVIDO'S STATEMENT OVER TAGBO'S DEATH
Tagbo was in 'Drunken State', I
Never Lied... Here are Seven Key
Points of Davido's Statement
Tagbo & Davido
TORI News had reported earlier
today that David Adeleke a.k.a
Davido, released a CCTV footage
and an official statement,
dissociating himself from the
death of his close pal, Tagbo
Umeike.
The Nigerian music star, through
his legal adviser, Norrison
Quakers (SAN), said he was never
arrested by the police, rather he
made himself available for
questioning, and also denied that
Tagbo entered his car on the
night of his death.
Here are seven key points of the
statement as summarized by
TheCable.
1. DAVIDO ‘WAS NEVER
ARRESTED’
“First of all we wish to state that
our client was never arrested but
rather made himself available to
assist the police in its
investigation and after a
satisfactory explanation, he was
allowed to go.
“It is imperative to the state that
the evidence and footage
available to the police discloses
the chain of events leading to the
discovery of the remains of Mr.
Tagbo Umeike do not in any way
incriminate our client, but rather
absolves him of any criminal
culpability; a fact that the police
is aware of.”
2. DAVIDO ‘DID NOT ASK
ANYONE TO DUMP TAGBO’S
BODY’
“For the records, we wish to state
that our client has not been found
culpable for the death of Mr.
Tagbo Umeike, and this was
earlier communicated by the
police in a closed meeting
involving the acting
commissioner of police, Lagos.
Davido, the family of the
deceased and one Caroline
Danjuma who claims to be
girlfriend of the deceased.
“Our client was also not involved
in the untimely death of the
deceased, nor did he give any
instructions to anyone to ‘dump’
the corpse of Mr. Tagbo Umeike
anywhere.”
3. TAGBO WAS IN A ‘DRUNKEN
STATE’
“Further, and as a matter of fact,
we wish to state that the deceased
did not step a foot, even for a
second, in any of our client’s
vehicles on the evening of the sad
events.
“The facts that can be distilled
from the CCTV footage obtained
from “Shisha Room” are that on
or about 12:23am in the early
hours of Tuesday the 3rd of
October, 2017 our client got ready
to leave the premises of the
“Shisha Room”, where he had
gone to earlier in the company of
some of his friends to celebrate
the birthday of one Clarks
Adeleke. Again, we reiterate our
client arrived at the Shisha Room
in his vehicle with his friends and
the deceased arrived at about one
hour later in his own vehicle.
“The CCTV footage obtained from
the ‘Shisha Room’ captured our
client and some others, including
the deceased all standing close to
our client’s vehicle as he
prepared to leave after drinks
and celebrations.
“The deceased is seen in that
footage to be in a very drunken
and intoxicated state as he was
staggering and falling on the
people around him. Our client
tried to convince the deceased
person to get into his vehicle in
his drunken state so as to take
him home safely, but this overture
on our client’s part was declined
by the deceased.
“The CCTV footage further
revealed that our client drove out
of the premises of ‘Shisha Room’,
while the deceased went back into
the ‘Shisha Room’ in the company
of most of the people who were all
at the car park at the time of our
client’s departure.”
4. DAVIDO ‘LEARNED ABOUT
TAGBO’S DEATH AT CLUB DNA’
“After departing from the ‘Shisha
Room’ our client honored an
invitation to a bar at Oniru Beach
and subsequently went to DNA
Night Club. Regrettably, while in
DNA Night Club, with some
friends, he received the tragic
news of the death of the
deceased.”
5. DAVIDO ‘NEVER SAW HIM
AGAIN’ AFTER LEAVING SHISHA
ROOM
“We wish to state unequivocally
on behalf of our client, that he
was not present at the time of the
death of the deceased, neither did
he give anyone directives or
instructions to take the remains
of the deceased to the general
hospital or to the morgue.
“Our client had no knowledge of
the deceased’s movement after he
last saw him at the ‘Shisha
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