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Court adjourns Falana’s suit against VeryDarkMan to January 2025

Court adjourns Falana’s suit against VeryDarkMan to January 2025

An Ikeja High Court on Thursday reserved Jan. 23, to hear the alleged defamation suit filed against the controversial online activist, Vincent Otse, popularly called VeryDarkMan (VDM).

VeryDarkMan is facing a defamatory suit filed against him by Mr Femi Falana (SAN), and his son, Folarin, also called Falz.

When the case was called on Thursday, counsel to Falana and Falz, Mr Muiz Banire (SAN), informed the court that the claimants had filed the originating process and served to the parties.

Banire also said a motion on notice was served on Oct. 25, but Justice Matthias Dawodu said the originating process was not before the court.

The claimant’s counsel, however, prayed the court to adjourn the case to enable him file administrative processes.

“In this circumstance, my lord, the best thing to do is to adjourn the matter so that we can go back to the registry to file all the administrative processes,” Banire said.

In his response, counsel to VeryDarkMan, Mr Marvin Omorogbe, said it had been observed that there was no valid writ of summon before the court.

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He, therefore, prayed the court to strike out the lawsuit.

Omorogbe said he did not know how the registry of the court would prepare any administrative process.

He opined that the writ already filed was invalid as it was not before the court.

According to him, the writ bears the same suit number as the preemptive remedy proceedings.

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