…As Court Adjourns Case To 13th February For Hearing
Oghenetejiri Nyerhovwo, Effurun
A forty-seven-year-old woman, Grace Moses has appeared before a Delta State High Court 2 sitting in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area of the State where she called on Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Governor of Lagos State to come for his child.
Grace Moses who spoke with journalists shortly after the Court adjourned the case involving the governor and her son, Emmanuel Sanwo-Olu said, “my message to Sanwo-Olu is, he should come and collect his child. The baby is grown up. He is troubling me. If not for God, I would have been dead by now.”
Grace Moses said because of the pregnancy she couldn’t go to school due to pressure from her mother who chased her out of the house because they had waited for Sanwo-Olu to no avail.
She disclosed that in her bid to also abort the pregnancy, she drank “lime” saying,”E nor gree commot.”
Grace Moses said she started selling pig for people and got paid one hundred and fifty naira which she used as upkeep for herself and the baby, adding, “the baby is now grown and he’s threatening to kill me if I do not show him his father”.
The woman claimed that she met the Lagos State governor in 1995 when she was 19years old, she further disclosed that Governor Sanwo-Olu was working with an oil company, Saipem at Ubogo Community in Udu Local Government Area at the time.
Grace Moses said that they began a relationship which resulted in pregnancy pointing out that the governor took her to a hospital in Agbarho Community, Ughelli North Local Government Area where he terminated the pregnancy.
The woman who spoke in pidgin English said after few days Governor Sanwo-Olu also had sex with her which resulted in another pregnancy.
According to the woman, since then Mr. Sanwo-Olu abandoned her and traveled out of the State on the grounds that he was transferred to work in Maiduguri,Borno State.
She said,she was left to carry the pregnancy and delivered the baby all alone without the assistance of Sanwo-Olu and any member of his family.
Grace Moses told her son, Emanuel Sanwo-Olu that his father is not a cripple., adding, “your papa nor be cripple. Sanwo-Olu nai be him name. He use left hand for everything. He nor dey carry Afro. He always dey barb low cut. Your papa na Yoruba man. He always dey put hand for pocket.”
Grace Moses noted that up till now, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has refused to grant her and the son, Emmanuel Sanwo-Olu audience or to see them.
Also in a chat with newsmen, Emmanuel Sanwo-Olu who was at the Court December 6, 2022 said that Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has not reached out to him since that time. He said attempts for him to meet him were unsuccessful as well.
While noting that it is people that own a child, Emmanuel said he is not after his father because he has money or he is now the governor of Lagos State. He however said, “I just want to know that he is my father.”
He said his mother told him how she met with his father, Babajide Sanwo-Olu many years ago., “I am not seeing anybody as my father’s relatives. I am bothered about it because my friends are mocking me.”
Meanwhile, the Delta State High Court 2 Sitting in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area have adjourned the matter in Suit Number: EHC/148/2022 to February 13, 2023 for hearing and application before it.
Mr. John Aikpokpo-Martins, Counsel to Emmanuel Sanwo-Olu and his mother, Grace Moses disclosed this to newsmen at the Court’s premises.
He said Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu had filed for preliminary objections that he is immuned in the matter as a governor.
