Judge bars journalists from covering Davido’s father’s divorce proceeding



Justice A. O. Oguntade, of the Osun State High
Court in Ede, yesterday prevented newsmen from
covering the divorce proceedings involving popular
musician, Davido’s dad, Deji Adeleke and his
estranged wife, Teju.
Adeleke, millionaire businessman, who
doubles as the Chancellor of the Adeleke
University was present in court during the
proceedings on Thursday but the estranged
wife was not.
Oguntade had on Thursday chased out
journalists present in the courtroom before the
proceedings started.
The Judge on entering the court room said,
“Journalists present in this court should go
out. I repeat, journalists present in this court
should go out now.”
Oguntade directed his orderly to escort the
journalists out and the orderly relayed the
order to the senior police officer, Adeoye
Yekinin, who led a team of armed policemen
deployed in the court for the divorce case.
The orderly while asking the journalists to
vacate the court room was, however, polite in
his action.
Reacting to the presence of the armed
policemen, a lawyer who was present in the
court for another matter said one of the
parties involved did not want publicity.
It was learnt that counsel to Adeleke’s
estranged wife, Mr. Kemi Pinheiro, SAN,
during the first hearing on Monday had
accused the judge of being biased.