Nigerian rapper, songwriter, actor and the son of Nigeria’s famous human right lawyer Femi Falana, Falz who was recently linked to Bobrisky’s 10 million Naira presidential pardon saga has finally spoken regarding his defamation case against social media personality and critic, Martin Vincent Otse known as VeryDarkMan who alleged that he and his father, Femi Falana, assisted Bobrisky in dropping money laundering charges.
The rapper had taken to his Instagram page giving Verydarkman 24 hours to take down his video and apologise for the defamation. However, VDM stood his ground and maintained that he did not defame Falz or his father, willingly agreeing to go to court on the issue. On the 15th of October, the Lagos high court ordered VDM to retract his defamatory statements made against the Falz and his father but he refused.
Falz had stressed that he is not familiar with VeryDarkman’s works and didn’t know much about his work before he defamed him. On the recent episode on the Afrobeats Podcast, Falz recollected how the conversation with VeryDarkMan went after he posted the video containing the defamatory claims.
“I’ll have you know that there’s a criminal angle to defamation, and I chose not to go that way. He could have very well been arrested. What you’ve posted is a load of bollocks, absolutely false and I need you to take it down and offer an apology within a certain amount of time and what did he do? Nothing,” Falz said.
“… I do not if it portrays him as a hero. He did not apologize to me. People are trying to peddle me as an oppressor”.
“… He trampled on every thing my father stood for, sticking out his neck for the opressed…so if you want to find trouble, trouble is my work; it’s my work. If you say that’s what you’re looking for, let’s go”. He further said.
Recall this issue began on 24th of September 2024, when VeryDarkMan released a voice tape of crossdresser Idris Odukunye popularly known as Bobrisky claiming that a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and his son assisted in keeping him out of prison and dropping the money laundering charges filed against him. The social media influencer and critic had alleged Falz and his father, to be the ones behind helping Bobrisky.
The rapper explained that he never had any issues with the social media personality until he stepped on his father’s name.
