Mike Adenuga’s Son in Messy Custody Battle with Baby Mama

Eniola Adenuga, the son of multi-billionaire businessman, Mike Adenuga, is currently in a legal battle with his baby mama, Maggie Ogun, over custody of their 16-month-old daughter.

According to the Nation, in an affidavit supporting his motion for custody, Adenuga, who works at Conoil Producing Limited, said he started ‘an amorous affair’ with Ogun in October 2013 and she informed him in 2014 that she was pregnant with his child. He added that he subsequently took full responsibility for their welfare.

He claimed he paid for her ante natal care at Reddington Hospital, gave her N100,000 monthly and took her to London where she was delivered of a baby girl on October 23, 2014, adding that he paid the bills worth 22,000 pounds, purchased a first class Lagos-London return ticket for her, and accommodated Ogun and her mother in his Cadogan Gardens, London home.

He said Ogun however returned to Lagos last January, three months after her delivery, and denied him access to the child.

“I was denied access by the respondent to see my daughter on the ground that I was not interested in marrying her. I sought her understanding in this regard and reminded her of the fact that we had both agreed to end the relationship as it was heading to nowhere,” he said.

Adenuga said Ogun’s mother insisted that he would only see the child on the condition that he married Ogun. Thus, he was not allowed to see his child between last March and October.

According to him, on one occasion that he was allowed access to the house, he observed that Ogun left his daughter in the care of a security man who doubled as houseboy/nanny and her grandmother, a septuagenarian.

He said, “I was shocked at the unhealthy, unhygienic and unsafe environment in which my daughter was being brought up,” adding that he sends N200,000 to Ogun monthly for their upkeep.

Adenuga said he enrolled his daughter at a “world-class” crèche where he paid N600,000 per term. He said he was only able to see his daughter when he organised a birthday party for her, and when he took her and Ogun to Dubai on holiday.

On why he wants custody of the child, Adenuga said, “The respondent is unwilling to create time needed to care for my daughter physically, emotionally and mentally and I reasonably believe that my daughter currently lacks motherly attention.”

Ogun, however, refuted his claims. She said from last May to October, she took her daughter to the applicant’s mother’s residence in Victoria Island every weekend and to the applicant’s father’s house on Banana Island at least thrice a week and sometimes slept over.

According to Ogun, problem arose when Adenuga’s mother demanded that she and the daughter spend two weeks monthly at her residence. Ogun said her family refused because she was not married to Adenuga.

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She added that she was trying to resolve the issue amicably when Adenuga, on October 13 last year, came to her home in company of a policeman demanding that his daughter be produced, and in the process assaulted her mother and damaged her phone when she tried to record the scene.‎

She claimed she pays her daughter’s medical bills at Reddington Hospital, adding that Adenuga was not solely responsible for her daughter’s welfare.Ogun said a doctor certified her daughter to be fit and healthy and that despite being born with a low birth weight of 2.7kg, her current growth pattern was more than satisfactory.‎ Besides, she said the only time her daughter was ill, she was diagnosed with an infection common to children when they start crawling and teething and was promptly treated.

She added, “I don’t believe it is in my daughter’s interest that the applicant be granted custody of my daughter. (He) is not suited to cope with the demands of having full custody of a 16-month old female child…he does not have a definite schedule (and) comes home by 12.”

An Igbosere Magistrate’s Court in Lagos has now granted custody rights to Adenuga. Dismissing Maggie’s objection that Adenuga cannot take adequate care of their daughter, Chief Magistrate O. A. Ogunbowale ruled, “the applicant (Adenuga) is hereby granted an overnight access to the subject (child) every fortnight from 8 am on Saturday to 12 noon on Sunday.” The order, she said, took effect from March 16 and would subsist until the case is determined.

She is also requesting an order suspending the ruling’s execution, and another to stop proceedings pending the appeal’s determination. The magistrate’s absence in court on Wednesday however stalled the application’s hearing.