Mercy Chinwo Files N1.1 Billion Lawsuit Against VeryDarkMan For Alleged Defamation

Gospel singer Mercy Chinwo has taken legal action against controversial social media personality Martins Vincent Otse, better known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), over alleged defamatory remarks.

Mercy Chinwo filed the lawsuit at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, seeking N1.1 billion in damages from VeryDarkMan.

The case revolves around claims made by VeryDarkMan on social media, where he accused Chinwo of being involved in a financial dispute and allegedly diverting $345,000 linked to her former record label boss, Ezekiel Onyedikachukwu, also known as EeZee Tee.

Chinwo’s lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, stated that the lawsuit demands VDM retract his statements, delete the posts, and issue a public apology.

To back her claims, Chinwo has presented the court with emails, payment receipts, and other documents, proving that the allegations are false.

This legal battle follows a February 17, 2025 ruling by a Federal High Court in Lagos, which upheld an arrest warrant against EeZee Tee for alleged fraudulent conversion. His arraignment is scheduled for March 6, 2025.

In the defamation suit, Olajengbesi argued that VeryDarkMan’s posts were unprovoked and intended to damage Mercy Chinwo’s reputation.

He pointed out that VDM repeatedly shared videos between February 2 and February 17, 2025, falsely claiming that Chinwo was taking bookings without informing her former record label.

The lawsuit further states that VDM’s content presented Chinwo in a negative light while siding with EeZee Tee, despite having no personal involvement in the dispute.

The singer claims the false accusations have harmed her public image, career, and emotional well-being.

Olajengbesi said VeryDarkMan’s videos show a “caricaturist and disdainful portrayal of the Claimant (Chinwo) as well the Defendant’s (VDM’s) bias towards the claim of Mr. EeZee T thereby deliberately ridiculing the position of the Claimant in the dispute between the Claimant and Mr. EeZee T”.

“The Claimant avers that she has neither had any form of relationship with the Defendant nor was the Defendant involved in the issue between the Claimant and Mr. EeZee T in any material particular.

“The Claimant avers that the statements which the Defendant made in the videos he published his Instagram page were as though the Defendant was personally involved in the issues between the Claimant and Mr. EeZee T; however, these statements were not only false, but damning and injurious to the Claimant’s public image and reputation.”

The lawyer sought “an order of this Honourable Court directing the Defendant to remove the defamatory posts from all his social media platforms.

“AN ORDER of this Honourable Court directing the Defendant to cause a retraction of the said defamatory statement in favour of the Claimant on all his social media platforms and to publish an unreserved apology to the Claimant in two widely circulated national dailies and all his social media platforms.

“AN ORDER of this Honourable Court directing the Defendants to write an unreserved apology to the Claimant and publish same in four national dailies, causing same to run for at least 14 consecutive days.

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

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

“AN ORDER of this Honourable Court directing the Defendant to pay the sum of N25,000,000.00 (Twenty-Five Million Naira) as the cost of this suit.

“AN ORDER of this Honourable Court directing the Defendant to pay 10% (Ten percent) on the judgment sum per annum until final liquidation of the judgment sum by the Defendants.”

This lawsuit comes after Mercy Chinwo previously accused EeZee Tee of exploitation, threats, and spreading false rumors about her child’s paternity.