Nigerian crossdresser turned transgender, Idris Olanrewaju Okuneye aka Bobrisky has filed N1 billion lawsuit against self-acclaimed activist, Martins Vincent Otse aka VeryDarkMan over alleged defamation of character.
Gatekeepers News reports that the lawsuit comes amid an allegation of N15 million bribery by VDM against Bobrisky.
Recall that VeryDarkMan had some days ago, shared a purported audio online wherein Bobrisky said she bribed some EFCC officials with 15 million naira to drop the money laundering charges against her. Bobrisky however denied the allegation and called for an open investigation.
Subsequently, Bobrisky filed a lawsuit against VDM through her legal counsel, Avwerosuoghene Omuvie on Sunday.
The counsel in a statement released, alleged that VeryDarkMan leaked an ‘artificial intelligence generated’ voice notes said to be Bobrisky’s which contained her revelation of how she had allegedly bribed some Prison officials to avoid spending his jail term in prison.
Bobrisky demanded a public apology from VDM as well as N1 billion for defamation of character.
The statement goes, “That your Artificial intelligence generated audio conversation published by you is the brainwork of you and any other person that worked with you to create same, we therefore warn going forward that you remove our client’s name from the said recording or anything that may connect our client to the alleged recording.”
“For the record our client had no idea of such telephone conversation with you or any other person.”
“That it has come to our notice that since the publication of the said blackmail material and defamatory Content by you, our client has suffered immense damages and has gotten several damaging review of his person, his brand and everything he holds dear, just like you threatened in the video earlier published on Tuesday the 24th day of September 2024, stating that failure to pay the demanded sum you would published a damming video and that our client would loss friends not knowing that the said damming video and recording was a defamatory content created by you to put our client in bad light and for your purpose of blackmail and that one would wonder after the payment you still went ahead to publish false information about our client because you have up your sleeves dangerous agendas to accomplish against our client.”
“We therefore demand in addition on behalf of our client, a written apology published in two national daily newspapers, a video recording of your apology to our client published on all your social media platforms, an undertaking to desist from reporting, publishing defamatory contents against our client and the payment in favour of our client the sum of N1,000,000,000 as damages within 24 hours of this letter on you via social media or any other means.”
“Take Notice: that your failure to fulfill and take advantage ofthe alternative dispute resolution mechanism introduced and stated in paragraphs 10 and 11 of this demand notice, we shall seek legal redress in a court with competent jurisdiction immediately without any further notices to you. We hope that this can be resolved within the next 24hours.”
