By Akinwale Kasali
Blogger and Social Media Critic, Martin Vincent Otse popularly known as VeryDarkMan, VDM, has been slammed a whopping sum of N500 Million by a Lagos State High Court for defamatory comments and videos made against Senior Lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), and his son, musician-son, Folarin, popularly known as Falz.
The Court ordered VDM to pay N500 million to them for libel, as stated in the pre-action bundle of the judgment.
Justice M. O. Idowu delivered the ruling in suit no: ID/8584/GCM/2024 on Tuesday.
According to him, the publications made by VeryDarkMan on his social media accounts on September 24, 2024, linking Idris Okuneye popularly known as Bobrisky, to Falz and his father were defamatory and injurious to their public image.
The Falanas had asked VDM to pull down the offensive post, retract and apologise or they would head to the Courts. He never quite did that, hence the suit.
A source who claim closely to VDM said he may either appeal the judgment or find a way to settle amicably with the Falanas.
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