A 27-year-old man and father of three children, Emmanuel Sanwo-Olu, has claimed that the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu is his biological father.
According to him, his mother had just told him that the Lagos governor was his father.
While speaking with journalists at the premises of the Delta State High Court 2 sitting in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta on Tuesday, Emmanuel, who claimed that his mother hails from Oleri community in the Udu Local Government Area, claimed that his mother had only him for Sanwo-Olu before she married another man for whom she had other children.
“I am 100 per cent sure that I am the son of Governor Sanwo-Olu”, the young man insisted, saying, “I just want to see the man, Sir, as my father.”
In the SUIT NO.: EHC/148/2022 between Emmanuel Moses Sanwo-Olu and Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the claimant averred that he was the conjugal product of a congenial relationship that existed between his mother, Grace Moses, and the defendant in 1994/95.
In his writ of summons issued by J. O. Aikpokpo-Martins, Esq., the claimant is praying to the court for the following:
“A declaration that the defendant is the biological father of the claimant begotten from Madam Grace Moses of Oleri, Delta State.
“An order directing and compelling the defendant to acknowledge and accord the claimant all the rights of a son in accordance with all the laws applicable whether customarily, statutorily, or constitutionally.
“An order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendant from further denying the parenthood of the claimant.”
The claimant, 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 from 1994 to 1995, and in the course of working and living in Warri that period, he had an amorous relationship with a girl known as Grace Moses from Oleri village near the Warri metropolis, Delta State from between 1994 to 1995.
He further alleged that the said Grace Moses eventually became pregnant for Sanwo-Olu in 1994 to the defendant’s knowledge and without any form of recriminations from him.
He added that shortly after, the defendant left Warri and Grace Moses lost contact with him to date.
In the writ of summons, the claimant is seeking a DNA test to prove his claim and called on the defendant to waive his constitutional immunity to agree to a DNA test if he insists that he is not the claimant’s father.
The court processes, which were filed on the 1st of August, 2022, came up for hearing on Tuesday at High Court 2, Effurun, but were later adjourned to January 17, 2023.