Controversial social media critic, Martins Vincent Otse, popularly referred to as VeryDarkMan (VDM), has accused gospel singer Mercy Chinwo of being manipulative and deceitful within the ongoing dispute between the artist and her former supervisor Ezekiel ThankGod Onyedikachukwu, popularly known as Eezee Tee.
VeryDarkMan, who had beforehand promised to research the matter, expressed his disappointment in Chinwo and her workforce in a latest video, accusing them of deceptive the general public on the actual points.
“To be trustworthy, with what I’ve discovered thus far, I’m so upset in Mercy Chinwo and every part she represents, upset in her and her workforce,” VDM acknowledged within the video posted on his social media hanles on Monday.
“All this stuff they’re doing disguising underneath the title of gospel and Christianity, it’s simply simply so unhappy. I cannot be utilizing ‘allegedly’ on this video as a result of I will likely be posting with proofs and a number of proof. And after this video, if Mercy Chinwo appears like VeryDarkMan is mendacity they usually have extra something to counter my proof, they’ll take me to court docket,” he declared.
In line with VeryDarkMan, Eeze Tee had seized Chinwo’s royalties as a result of she went for concert events and programmes with out the information of his music label and refused to reveal the monetary proceeds that have been paid to her.
VeryDarkMan posted an image of a letter addressed to Chinwo in regards to the concern on March 21, 2023, titled “NOTICE OF BREACH OF CONTRACT AND INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT.”
The letter reads, “Kindly word herewith that now we have raised the problem of no communication and non-remittance of cash for varied occasions which was deliberately boycotted to your private account towards the agreed offered organizational account. On our electronic mail to you on the 12 of April 2022. Consequently, all royalties resulting from you have been paid to you in full. Nevertheless, royalties for streams of content material as distributed on digital platforms have been paid until the primary quarter of 2022 (being acquired and paid quarterly as agreed and reported). Additional to this, you have been knowledgeable by way of our mutual pastor (Reverend Temple Odoko) of the truth that your royalties from digital streams from the second quarter of 2022 will likely be retained till you’re taking steps to restore this bridge and ample reconciliation is finished within the pursuits of all events.”
The social media critic additional acknowledged that Chinwo reportedly declined to fulfil invites that had already been paid for by church buildings worldwide, main Eezee Conceptz Label to start issuing refunds to numerous people and organisations.
VDM claimed that Chinwo’s grievance to the EFCC concerning the illegal seizure of her royalties resulted within the freezing of all of Eezee Tee’s financial institution accounts and prompted an invite for him to look on the EFCC workplace.
Nevertheless, Eezee Tee didn’t reply to the invites, arguing that it was a civil matter.
The case moved to Ilorin on April 24, the place he was promptly detained, “Once they introduced out the petition, it was Mercy Chinwo and Judikay that filed the petition,” VeryDarkMan alleged.
“The IPO’s Identify is Stanley Ojilibo of EFCC in Ilorin, Stanley was forcing Eezee to write down an announcement of no matter he requested him to write down.”
“That was how he was stored there for 9 days underneath the petition of Mercy Chinwo.”
In line with VeryDarkMan, the report label boss reportedly grew drained and agreed to present Mercy her royalties and he was taken to the financial institution to unfreeze his accounts underneath the supervision of Stanley, to allow him to ship $274,000 to the gospel singer.
Eezee Tee allegedly paid the cash in splits.
He added that Mercy Chinwo allegedly paid the sum of $3,500 as cash she realised from acting at exhibits behind the label’s again however that she refused an audit on her account.
VDM additionally claimed that the EFCC tried to power Eezee Tee at hand over Mercy’s catalogue however he vehemently refused, insisting that the case needed to be transferred again to Lagos.
VeryDarkMan additionally claimed that Eezee Tee had identified Chinwo since 2012 earlier than she went for ‘Nigerian Idol’ and that he had contributed to sponsoring her.
He claimed that she squandered the cash realised from the present and later returned to Eezee Tee when the cash had completed in 2017.
“At the moment Frank Edward was with Eezee Tee,” VeryDarkMan mentioned.
On the problem of forgery raised by Mercy Chinwo, VeryDarkMan defined that whereas Chinwo initially joined EeZee Conceptz in 2017, no formal contract was signed at the moment for the reason that label was nonetheless a startup.
By 2019, when the label had gained recognition, a proper doc was drafted, which up to date the date to mirror the precise length of the settlement.
Each events had acknowledged and signed the corrected contract with witnesses round.
“Eezee mentioned someday, Apostle Anslem Mabubuko of the Revival Meeting known as him. When he got here, he mentioned ‘I need you to present Mercy Chinwo {the catalogue}’. All these she mentioned she has God, you could have bloggers.
“You have got God and fathers really,” VeryDarkMan mentioned.
VeryDark Man concluded that he would combat on the facet of Eezee Tee within the matter.
