Davido , real name, David Adeleke, the Nigerian afrobeats sensation, claims his family’s wealth did not occur to him while he was growing up as a child.
Davido said that he was only aware of his family’s social and economic standing when he was in his teens.
On the most recent episode of the Drink Champs podcast, which is co-hosted by N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN, Davido made a guest appearance and claimed that at the age of 13, he discovered his father, Chief Adedeji Adeleke, was a wealthy man.
He asserted that it took an explosion that occurred in their house and an unplanned swift move to a new enormous structure for him to come to terms with the reality of the wealth of his father who however leads a modest life.
He said, “As much money that I have been seeing, all these rich this, rich that. My dad is very disciplined.
“I ain’t know we had money till I was 13. My dad was a billionaire driving a Honda Accord. Let me tell you how I knew he was lit. So, there was an explosion and a lot of houses got destroyed including our first house that we have been since when I was a kid. When that happened, we had to leave that day because the house got so f*cked up.
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“So, my mum was like, David, we are leaving, we are going to the new house. I was like, ahnn! New house? He [my dad] has been building the house in another part of the town since but I didn’t even know. We started driving, when he got there, it was mad. Big crib. He still stays there now. I was like, mummy, what’s going on? That was when I started realising that my dad was rich.”
