-“ Now his son is grown up; he should come and take him to prevent him from killing me for allegedly not disclosing his father,” she pleads
- Says: “During the boy’s pregnancy, I drank all manner of concoction including lime in my bid to abort, but e no gree commot”
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–Pix(above, L-R): Sanwo-Olu, Grace Moses and Emmanuel Sanwo-|Olu
A woman, named Grace Moses, has revealed how the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, had impregnated her in Warri area of Delta State and ran away, thus leaving her in the lurch.
She claimed to have a 27-year-old son for the Lagos Governor when he (Sanwo-Olu) was working with an oil company, Saipem, at Ubogo Community in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State, around 1995.
Grace said her major reason for coming out publicly was against the backdrop of the son threatening to kill her if she refuses to show him his biological father.
Essentially, Grace spoke after her son, Emmanuel Sanwo-Olu, had dragged the Governor before the High Court 2 sitting in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta in December 2022.
In the suit filed in court, Emmanuel wants the court to compel the governor to acknowledge him as his son and grant him all the rights and privileges he duly deserves.
In his court papers filed by his lawyer, J. O. Aikpokpo-Martins, Esq, Emmanuel, in the 19-paragraph statement of claim attached to the writ, claimed that Governor Sanwo-Olu was a staff of a private company operating in Warri and its environs in Delta State between 1994 and 1995, and in the course of working and living in Warri that period, he had an amorous relationship with his mother, Grace Moses, from Oleri village near Warri metropolis, Delta State between 1994 and 1995.
He wants the Governor to agree to a DNA test to prove he is, indeed, his son.
Emmanuel, who does menial jobs to survive with his wife and three kids, told newsmen in December 2022, that for the past 27 years, he has not seen his father.
“I am 100 per cent sure that I am the son of Governor Sanwo-Olu. I just want to see the man, as my father.”
At the first hearing of the case in December, his counsel told newsmen that lawyers to Gov Sanwo-Olu had filed a motion to strike out the matter on the grounds that the Governor was not ready to wave his immunity.
However, the case resumed for hearing on Tuesday, 17 January, 2023.
While speaking to Galaxy TV after the hearing, the 47-year-old mother of Emmanuel said she is certain Gov Sanwo-Olu is Emmanuel’s father.
”My message to Sanwo-Olu is, he should come and have his child. The baby is now grown up. He is troubling me. If not for God, I would have been dead by now.
“Because of the pregnancy, I couldn’t go to school due to pressure from my mother who chased me out of the house because they had waited for Sanwo-Olu, my pregnancy’s father, to no avail.
“I started selling pig to people and got paid N150 which I used for the upkeep of myself and the baby. 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 19.
“Governor Sanwo-Olu was working with an oil company, Saipem, at Ubogo Community in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State at that time.
“We began a relationship which, initially, resulted in pregnancy. The governor took me to a hospital in Agbarho Community, Ughelli North Local Government Area where he terminated the pregnancy.”
The woman who spoke mostly in pidgin English said: “After few days, Sanwo-Olu, again, had sex with me which resulted in another pregnancy. Since then, Sanwo-Olu abandoned me and travelled out of the state on the grounds that he was transferred to work in Maiduguri, Borno State.
“I was left to carry the pregnancy and delivered the baby all alone without the assistance of Sanwo-Olu and any member of his family. I told my son, Emmanuel Sanwo-Olu, that his father is not a cripple, and there is no credible reason for him not to come around. Up till now, he has refused to grant me and his son, EmmanuelSanwo-Olu audience. Please tell Sanwo-Olu he should remember that God who sees everything is watching.”/SHARE THIS
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