{"id":62778,"date":"2025-03-14T16:03:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T16:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62778"},"modified":"2025-03-14T16:03:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T16:03:30","slug":"vdm-defies-court-arrest-order-alleges-judicial-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/14\/vdm-defies-court-arrest-order-alleges-judicial-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"VDM Defies Court Arrest Order, Alleges Judicial Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Controversial activist Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), has fired back at a court order for his arrest over alleged defamation of gospel singer Mercy Chinwo, vowing not to be silenced.<\/p>\n<p>In a video shared on his X account on March 14, 2025, VDM dismissed the judiciary\u2019s authority to suppress his voice, alleging a conspiracy to take him down.<\/p>\n<p>His response follows a bench warrant issued by the Chief Magistrate Court in Wuse Zone 6, Abuja, over criminal defamation charges linked to Mercy Chinwo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe judiciary cannot shut me down,\u201d he declared, accusing influential figures of financing a legal campaign against him.<\/p>\n<p>He also questioned why multiple cases against him were assigned to the same magistrate and criticized the timing of the arrest order while he was outside Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>VDM further pointed out inconsistencies in court affidavits and slammed the injunction from a Nyanya court restricting him from discussing Chinwo and her associate Eezee Tee.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted that even if arrested upon his return, the move would only expose alleged judicial manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks fuel ongoing debates about judicial power, free speech, and accountability in Nigeria\u2019s legal system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Controversial activist Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), has fired back at a court order for his arrest over alleged defamation of gospel singer Mercy Chinwo, vowing not to be silenced. In a video shared on his X account on March 14, 2025, VDM dismissed the judiciary\u2019s authority to suppress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62780,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62778\/revisions\/62780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}