The Chief Magistrate Court in Wuse Zone 6, Abuja has come out to issue a bench warrant for the arrest of controversial social media personality, VDM over the alleged defamation of Nigerian gospel singer, Mercy Chinwo. Magistrate Emmanuel Iyanna issued the bench warrant on March 13, 2025 following VeryDarkMan’s failure to appear before the magistrate after being summoned on March 5, 2025.
According to VDM’s lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, he had previously appealed to the court to allow him to appear in VDM’s stead, however, the appeal was denied stressing that the social media personality was to appear by himself.
His words, “Yes, a bench warrant has been issued against him for failure to show up in court. They are just interested in a media trial; they are not serious about prosecution.”
VDM’s warrant of arrest follows his allaged defamatory remarks on social media, accusing Chinwo of being involved in a contractual dispute, and the alleged diversion of $345,000 connected to her former record label boss, Eezee Tee were the basis for the bench warrant.
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