Popular Nigerian cross-dresser Bobrisky, has filed a lawsuit against internet activist and critic, VeryDarkMan following a scandal over an audio posted by VDM accusing him of allegedly bribing officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, with N15 million to drop the money laundering charges levelled against him earlier this year.
The voice recording also implicated some officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service, NCS, who supposedly allowed Bobrisky to spend his six-month jail term outside the prison.
However, Bobrisky, in a cease and desist notice by his lawyers R.T. Omuvwie and Co., and shared on his social media accounts Sunday, claimed that the voice recording was doctored and most likely AI generated.
“Your artificial intelligence-generated audio conversation published by you is the brainwork of you and any other person who worked with you to create the same. Therefore, we warn you that in the future, you should remove our client’s name from the said recording or anything that may connect our client to the alleged recording.
“Our client had no idea of such a telephone conversation with you or anyone else. 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 reviews of his person, his brand and everything he holds dear”, the notice read.
In a letter he shared on his Facebook page on Sunday, Bobrisky’s legal team also demanded that VeryDarkMan delete the audio clip immediately, issue a public apology in two national newspapers, and record a video apology to be shared across all social media platforms.
Furthermore, the crossdresser legal team warned VeryDarkMan that failure to comply with their demands would result in legal action.
“That your failure to fulfil and take advantage of the 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 24 hours”, the lawsuit added.
The suit also demands that VeryDarkMan cease publishing defamatory content about Bobrisky and pay N1 billion in damages within 24 hours.
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