The billionaire industrialist disclosed this while speaking as a Layperson from the West-Central Africa Division during the Seventh Day Adventist General Conference Annual Council on Tuesday, which was held in Maryland, United States of America.

While sharing his experience as a Baptist member, Adeleke recounted how he ran into bottlenecks with ‘difficult government officials’, with a particular official saying to him that the project would never ‘see the light of day’.

He said he went on his knees and prayed to God because he did not want to accept the government official’s statement as the final say for his company, Pacific Energy which was closely working with Chinese engineering companies for the construction and design of the power projects.

“I am a businessman in Nigeria. I’m into the electricity business. I own a power plant, I generate about 15 per cent of the electricity needs for Nigeria. I have Chinese engineering companies that work for me. I’m building the biggest power plant in Nigeria that will be completed in January 2025. It is a 1,250-megawatt power plant.

During the course of the design and getting the permit, we ran into difficult government officials. For environmental reasons, our permit was denied, and the particular government officials that I held a meeting with told me to my face that my project would never see the light of the day. But while he was saying that, I was saying in my mind that this guy is talking as if he is God. I was saying in my mind that God should listen to him; Because he is not God, whatever he is saying is null and void.”

“So I left, disappointed and I told my Chinese friends that unfortunately we have difficulty and this project is going to stall. Meanwhile, the project is worth about $2 billion. In the process, a lot of money had already gone into the design and preliminaries. Before we get to the stage where we would need a permit and then break ground. So my Chinese friend was worried because the Afrexim Bank of China was involved so that meant bankruptcy for him. I told him not to worry,” he said.

Adeleke further stressed that his Chinese friend had to travel down to Nigeria to discuss a way out because he never believed that prayer was enough to get the project done, noting that it did as the then Minister of Power granted the approval because he saw that the project was a brilliant one.

Recall that Adeleke had earlier spoken about this power project while delivering a lecture note at the 9th graduation ceremony of Adeleke University, Ede, Osun State in July 2023.

Davido shared the pictures on his Instagram account with the #CHIVIDO2024

Davido had last week Tuesday confirmed his upcoming wedding to his partner, Chioma Rowland.

According to reports, Chioma and Davido’s. traditional wedding is scheduled to take place in Lagos on June 25, 2024 .

While reacting to Davido’s upcoming wedding on his social media account, Dammy alleged that Davido is getting married to Chioma simply because she caught him cheating.

He also stated in the post that there is nothing ‘’worse than murder,” before adding that Davido might have money but he can never find peace.

The Unavailable singer has now issued a cease and desist notice through his lawyers to Dammy Krane, asking Krane to refrain from making defamatory statements about him.

The letter also demands that Dammy Krane remove and retract the offensive publication from all his social media accounts within 24 hours or risk being sued. 

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, said investigation had begun into the allegations.

He said, “I can confirm to you that we have received the petition and investigation has commenced.”

Savage, in the petition currently in circulation, accused Davido of uttering disrespectful words in reaction to a post which included herself and the singer’s Baby mama, Sophia Momodu’s Instagram story.

The singer explained how she expressed disappointment at Davido’s threats and reminded him of how she stood by his family, especially when he lost his son, Ifeanyi.

She however claimed to have thereafter received calls from mutual connections seeking to know what she did to upset Davido and also questioning her relationship with Sophia.

The petition read in part, “On the 23rd of December, I made a post which included myself and Sophia Momodu’s Instagram Story- a feature on Instagram which allows you to put up a post for twenty-four hours, and MR. DAVID ADELEKE sent messages to my manager who’s also part of his management team that I shouldn’t worry and should never say a word to him and that I was taunting him, uttering very đisrespectful, malicious and derogatory words to my person.

“I responded to MR. DAVID ADELEKE’s message and told him not to reach out to me, especially as I feel like I have been there for him and his daughter, Imade, and more importantly when he lost his son. The events of that day have also led to a barrage of calls and messages from our mutual connections, asking me what I did to MR. DAVID ADELEKE that he’s upset that I chose to maintain a relationship with Imade’s mother, Sophia Momodu, who he’s having issues with and also painting the exchange to look like I was the aggressor.”

Savage further alleged that Davido told their mutual connections to warn her to be careful in Lagos as she was going to deal with her.

“He has also told our connections to warn me to ‘be careful in Lagos because he was going to f”k me up’. This is beginning to feel like some form of online and offline harassment not just to me but also members of my team. The action of MR. DAVID ADELEKE is unethical and can be viewed as a direct threat to my rights to life, privacy, and dignity of my person,” she added.

PUNCH Metro had reported that there was a buzz on social media on Saturday, January 6, 2024, after both singers unfollowed each other on Instagram.

Davido and Savage were known to have had a cordial relationship over the years, with their children, Imade Adeleke and Jamil Balogun, following in their parents’ footsteps.

Both children attended the same school and had been seen on several occasions enjoying each other’s company.

However, there have been diverse speculations as to what could have informed both top artistes to unfollow each other, with some fans opining that the move could be a result of the waxing friendship between Savage and Sophia.

Before the petition, music executive, Tunji Balogun, popularly known as Tee Billz, had called out Davido for allegedly disrespecting his family, threatening to teach him a lesson.

In a post on his Instagram page, Tee Billz specifically accused Davido of “bullying” his ex-wife, Tiwa Savage.

News surfaced on Friday that the ‘Unavailable’ crooner and his wife welcomed a set of twins, a boy and a girl, in the United States.

Confirming the news for the first time, Davido, while speaking at the United Masters Select Con event Saturday, said he and his wife were shaking upon finding out they were expecting twins.

The singer, who lost his son, Ifeanyi, in October 2022, speaking on his healing journey following the death of his son and the birth of his twins, said, “When my wife and I found out, we were shaking, and it was in the same month my son passed. My son passed away last year in October, and my wife gave birth this year in October.”

Davido made this known in an interview with YouTuber, Anas Bukhash.

While the interviewer was talking about his daughters, Davido interrupted and said, “I’ve a son too. Like, Ifeanyi has a little brother.”

When quizzed further about the name of the boy, he called him Dawson.

Recall, Davido lost his older son, Ifeanyi, after the latter drowned in a swimming pool in his father’s residence in Banana Island, Lagos, in October 2022.

The famously called ‘OBO’ had revealed that he regrets deeply about his son’s death.

He said, “I miss him every day. There are tears coming out of my eyes every morning. You don’t have to see it.”

Davido added that he once sold his billionaire father’s television sets, and almost sold his Rolls Royce car in Atlanta.

The ‘Unavailable’ crooner who is well-known for his style of giving out money to his fans, mentioned that if his dad gives him a million dollars then, he could reciprocate by giving everything out before 9pm of the same day.

Being the last of five children, he stressed that he used to follow his older siblings to night clubs at the age of 15.

Davido made this known in an interview on the Morning Show on Hot 97FM, New York, which was shared on Saturday.

He stated that he and Wizkid had a 12-year rift and that they only began talking after his son died.

Speaking in the video, he said, “With Wiz, over the years we had a rift, for 12 years we had a rift up until recently he chatted up and I am seeing the positivity.

“I am seeing the change in the industry a little bit because everybody is calming down, especially with my situation; the tragic situation that happened, he called me every week since it happened,” he added.

Recall that Davido and his fiancee, Chioma Rowland, lost their only son, Ifeanyi in November 2022, shortly after his third-year birthday.

It was reported that the boy drowned in a pool at his father’s house in Banana Island and was rushed to a hospital at Lekki where he was pronounced dead.

In an interview with CNN, the singer who recently released a new album, says grieving the loss of his son had some impact on the project.

“Before my son passed, we had finished the album. But it was a tragic situation and I really had to calm myself down and take a step back,” he explained

The 30-year-old singer credits his return to the music scene to the overwhelming amount of support he received from his family, friends and fans.

“Nobody would want that,” Davido said, referring to the death of his son. “And everybody knows that I and Chioma didn’t deserve that.”

“At some point I couldn’t open my Instagram for weeks. One day, I just checked it and I saw messages from every kind of person in the world. I was like ‘you’re fine, you see everybody is rooting for you.’ That was one thing that really made me strong enough to stand up again, get back in the studio and do what I love.” He told CNN.

The ‘Dami Duro’ crooner said this in an interview with Beat 99.9FM, Lagos, on Friday.

Davido, who was off social media for a while after the death of his son, Ifeanyi, said he would have been very vocal about the elections if he was online.

He said he was happy about the low turnout of voters, adding that the safety of voters was important.

He said, “I’m happy that people were not really coming out. You know if I was online, I would have been really vocal about it (the election). I have always been vocal about it.

“But, I mean, I was happy about it. That’s just being honest. It’s what it is! But I personally don’t feel like that was really a credible election. You know what I’m saying? I feel like the most important thing is the safety of life of everybody. But in all, that wasn’t it. So, I don’t think I will be able to hide that. I can’t hide that,” Davido added.

the Afrobeat star dropped his much-awaited album, ‘Timeless,’ on Friday.

The music star took to his social media page in the early hours of Friday to announce the release of the 17-track project to his numerous fans.

“At long last – We are back. The journey from my last album to this album has been a whirlwind to say the least,” Davido wrote on Twitter announcing the album.

Davido’s ‘Timeless’ got one million streams in six hours after it dropped.