Nigerian music star, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has revealed how his father influenced his annual birthday donations to orphanages.
Speaking during an appearance on The Morning Hustle podcast on Tuesday, Davido recalled how in 2021, his father warned him against keeping the money he got from donations during his birthday.
“I tweeted my account number randomly on Twitter on my birthday, and my fans ended up sending me close to $400,000. I was thinking about what to do with it,” he said.
However, he mentioned that his father caught wind of it and advised him to think differently about how to use the money.
“My dad called me and said, ‘You know you can’t keep that money, right?’ I was like, ‘What? What do you mean I can’t keep my money? It’s my money,’” he said
Consequently, Davido said he decided to donate the entire amount to a motherless babies’ home.
“I gave it all away to the motherless babies’ homes. We did that the first and second years, back to back. The first year, it was the donations, the next year I used my own money. I also used my money this year.
“It’s something we’ve been doing every year with the foundation, and we hope for it to get bigger. There are about 500 orphanages. I met people who told me they were beneficiaries. Imagine all those people praying for you,” he added.
