Tiwa Savage files police complaint against Davido over alleged threats

Afrobeats star Tiwa Savage has asked police in Nigeria for “urgent intervention,” in a complaint letter filed Tuesday against Grammy-nominated musician Davido that was circulated widely on social media.

Police launched an investigation on Tuesday after receiving the hand-delivered letter at its headquarters in the Lagos State city of Ikeja, according to a spokesman for the Nigeria Police Force, who confirmed to CNN that the complaint letter was written by Savage.

In the petition to Nigeria’s Commissioner of Police, the “Koroba” singer, whose real name is Tiwatope Omolara Savage, detailed what she described as a “distressing situation” between herself and David Adedeji Adeleke, popularly known as Davido.

Savage wrote that on December 23, she uploaded an Instagram story that included herself and internet personality Sophia Momodu, the mother of Davido’s first child.

After that, she said, Davido “sent messages to my manager who’s also part of his management team that I shouldn’t worry and should never say a word to him and that I was taunting him, uttering very disrespectful, malicious and derogatory words to my person.”

She said she responded to Davido’s message “and told him not to reach out to me especially as I feel like I have been there for him and his daughter, Imade and more importantly when he lost his son.”