Emmanuel Adebayor tells his mother: You're a witch, leave me alone

Emmanuel Adebayor has accused his mother of practising witchcraft on him and kicked her out of her home in Togo.

The 30-year-old millionaire star, who plays for Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur and earns £170,000-a-week, accused the family of performing ‘juju’ on him, a term given to the practice of witchcraft in West Africa.

Adebayor told Ghanaian radio station: “Obviously I’m not a pastor, I am a footballer so I cannot point out a witch. I never sacked my mum from the house — she decided to leave the house,” Adebayor is quoted as saying in the Daily Mail.

“But how am I going to be in touch with my mum if my mum is the one telling everyone that my work will not go forward. They should stop talking, talking, they should stop doing juju on me — they should leave me alone.

But his family hit back by claiming that the star had been ‘brainwashed’ by Islamic spiritual healers who told him that his poor form on the football pitch was down to black magic.

While Adebayor scored 14 goals in 25 games last season for Tottenham, he has only managed two strikes in 12 matches so far this campaign.