By Blessing Udeobasi
Popular Nigerian musician, David Adeleke aka Davido has said that many people thought he had used the money promised to donate to orphanages across Nigeria to buy his two cars including his Lamborghini.
The music star said this during a chat with South African comedian and TV host, Trevor Noah, here he revealed he didn’t spend the money but that he bought the cars with his personal money.
Recall that Davido during his last birthday raised N200M within 72 hours after he shared his account details on social media but later decided to disburse the money to orphanage homes.
“I started calling famous people…I was like c’mon you know I made a hit song for you last year. I was like everybody that I have helped in one way or the other, that’s why this tour is called we rise by lifting others. I was scared it came up to $600,000 and at this point, I’m like can I keep this?” he said.
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“We know that so much is going on around the world and I was like I can’t be that insensitive and I spoke to my dad who is my mentor and he said ‘you know you can’t keep that money.’ A lot of people were like no keep it, you’ve done so much for the community.”
“I woke up the next day, reflecting on my whole life and how God has blessed me. So we decided to donate all $600,000 to orphanages across the country. Just for accountability, it took months to disburse because we had to know which orphanage is real,” he explained.
“Then I started getting tweets like ‘this dude kept the money.’ Because after that, I bought two more cars. I bought a Lamborghini…that was just my money though.” He said.
