Gospel Singer Mercy Chinwo Slams Activist VeryDarkMan With N1.1bn Defamation Suit

Gospel singer Mercy Chinwo has dragged social media activist Martins Vincent Otse also referred to as VeryDarkMan (VDM), to a Excessive Court docket of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, demanding N1.1bn in damages over “defamatory” social media posts made towards her individual by the activist over the contract dispute involving her and her former file label boss.

LEADERSHIP reviews the case of alleged diversion of $345,000 royalties towards Ezekiel Onyedikachukwu, also referred to as EezeeTee, by the singer.

Nevertheless, within the swimsuit filed by Chinwo’s lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, the singer demanded that VDM delete, retract and tender an apology for all of the “false” and “defamatory” social media posts he made towards her individual and her model over the contractual dispute with Eezee Tee.

Recall that on February 17, 2025, a Federal Excessive Court docket in Lagos held that the arrest warrant towards Eezee Tee over alleged fraudulent conversion case subsistee and adjourned the case till March 6, 2025 for the arraignment of the file label boss.

Within the recent defamation swimsuit filed, Olajengbesi stated VDM made the posts with out provocation and with the obvious intention of decreasing Chinwo’s estimation within the eye of right-thinking members of the society.

Mercy Chinwo furnished the courtroom with all paperwork and evidences to determine that each one that VeryDarkMan has been saying had been false.

He instructed the courtroom that the VDM’s movies and posts had been false and have precipitated vital hurt to the Chinwo’s public picture, fame, skilled standing and emotional well-being.

The lawyer stated VDM made the posts on his Instagram deal with on 2nd, third, 4th, fifth, twelfth and seventeenth of February 2025, accusing Chinwo of “going behind the file label to go and acquire exhibits, she was accumulating gigs and he or she was not remitting cash to the file label”.

Within the swimsuit, Olajengbesi stated VDM posted a sequence of movies to his tens of millions of followers exhibiting a “caricaturist and disdainful portrayal of the Claimant (Chinwo) as effectively the Defendant’s (VDM’s) bias in the direction of the declare of Mr. EeZee T thereby intentionally ridiculing the place of the Claimant within the dispute between the Claimant and Mr. EeZee T.

“The Claimant avers that she has neither had any type of relationship with the Defendant nor was the Defendant concerned within the problem between the Claimant and Mr. EeZee T in any materials explicit.

“The Claimant avers that the statements which the Defendant made within the movies he printed his Instagram web page had been as if the Defendant was personally concerned within the points between the Claimant and Mr. EeZee T; nonetheless, these statements weren’t solely false, however damning and injurious to the Claimant’s public picture and fame.”

The lawyer, due to this fact, sought “an order of this Honourable Court docket directing the Defendant to take away the defamatory posts from all his social media platforms.

“AN ORDER of this Honourable Court docket directing the Defendant to trigger a retraction of the stated defamatory assertion in favour of the Claimant on all his social media platforms and to publish an unreserved apology to the Claimant in two extensively circulated nationwide dailies and all his social media platforms.

“AN ORDER of this Honourable Court docket directing the Defendants to jot down an unreserved apology to the Claimant and publish identical in 4 nationwide dailies, inflicting identical to run for at the least 14 consecutive days.

“AN ORDER of this Honourable Court docket directing the Defendant to pay to the Claimant the Sum of N1,000,000,000.00 (One Billion Naira) solely as Common Damages for defamation.

“AN ORDER of this Honourable Court docket directing the Defendant to pay to the Claimant, the Sum of N100,000,000.00 (One Hundred Million Naira) solely as Punitive and Aggravated Damages for the grossly defamatory assertion.

“AN ORDER of this Honourable Court docket directing the Defendant to pay the sum of N25,000,000.00 (Twenty-5 Million Naira) as the price of this swimsuit.

“AN ORDER of this Honourable Court docket directing the Defendant to pay 10% (Ten p.c) on the judgment sum every year till remaining liquidation of the judgment sum by the Defendant.”