- Safiu Kehinde
Amid his alleged bribery and money laundering saga, popular Nigerian crossdresser Idris Okuneye (Bobrisky) has filed N1 billion lawsuit against activist and social media influencer, Martins Vincent Otse ( VeryDarkMan), for alleged defamation of character.
This was contained in a letter issued on Sunday by Bobrisky’s legal counsel, Avwerosuoghene Omuvie.
The counsel alleged that VeryDarkMan leaked an ‘artificial intelligence generated’ voice notes said to be Bobrisky’s which contained his said revelation of how he had allegedly bribed his way to avoid spending his jail term in prison.
While recounting the damages the leaked voice note had done to Bobrisky, the lawsuit demanded public apology from VDM as well as N1 billion for defamation of character.
The statement read in part; “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.”