Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has said controversial social media personality Martins Vincent Otse also known as VeryDarkMan, defamed him by saying he son Folarin, aka Falz he spoke with crossdresser, Idris Okuneye, aka Bobrisky, promising to get him a presidential pardon for N10 million.
In a viral audio posted by VeryDarkMan, Bobrisky had alleged that he bribed some Economic and Financial Crimes Commission officials with N15 million to drop the money laundering charge against him.
In the purported recording, the crossdresser also claimed that his “godfather,” alongside the Controller-General of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Haliru Nababa, ensured he served the six-month sentence in a private apartment and not in prison.
Also in the clip, Bobrisky claimed that he spoke with the SAN’s rapper and actor son Folarin Falana who said he would speak with his dad to get presidential pardon. This has now been denied by the Folarins who threatened to go to court to clear their names.
But in an interview on Channels TV, the respected lawyer said he has helped about 250 people seek for state pardon without any form of payment.
He said, “Bobrisky never spoke to me, I have never met him, I do not know him from Adam. He was alleged to have spoken to my son Folarin (Falz).
“Yes, my son said this guy was appealing to people for assistance and called my son I think on May 4 this year – please can you give me N3 million to be placed in a special part of the prison, we call it the VIP section.
“My son asked him, are you calling me under the authorization of the superintendent of prisons? He said no – please don’t call me again, I am unable to assist you to bribe the prison authorities and be very careful since you are already in prison for an offence.
“Please if you are you are going to call me next time, you either do through the superintendent or you write a letter endorsed by the prison authorities and that was the last. Somebody now start releasing tapes somewhere and went out to lampoon and rather defame me by saying the guy has spoken to me.”
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