Esinjemiyotan Atsepoyi, the wife of Mr Jollof, the comedian, has threatened legal action against VeryDarkMan, the controversial activist, for accusing her of adultery.

The Abuja-based activist alleged that Mr Jollof’s wife, through promiscuity, helped him secure his position as the SSA on new media to Sheriff Oborevwori, governor of Delta.

The social media celebrity also claimed Esinjemiyotan had an affair with an internet fraudster at a hotel in Delta.

Prime Chambers, Esinjemiyotan’s lawyers, issued a letter denying the adultery allegations.

The letter described VeryDarkMan’s claim as an “intentional attempt to tarnish our client’s reputation”.

“Professionally, our client worked with Fidelity Bank from 2011 where she rose through the ranks before resigning and going into private enterprise in 2019 as an Event Planner,” the letter reads in part.

“As an Event Planner, she has a wide range of patronage around the Federation and Niger Delta in particular; earning over N100,000,000.00 (One Hundred Million Naira) per annum. She charges between 1 million naira to 5 million naira for events and plans same on most days of every month around each year.

“Sometime on the 15th, 16th and in the early hours of 19th September, 2024, you used your social media verified Instagram handle of “verydarkblackman” with over One Million Seven Hundred Thousand (1,700,000.00) followers to continually record and publish a video about our client wherein you said that she committed adultery against her husband with a “yahoo boy”.

Esinjemiyotan said the allegations have subjected her to “insults and degrading words” on social media.

She also demanded an immediate retraction and public apology in two national newspapers.

The letter added that if VeryDarkMan failed to comply within 24 hours, “we shall have no other option than to take appropriate legal action against you”.

“In view of that, our client’s business social media page (@eventsbybloomsandballoons) is being bombarded with several insults, degrading and unprintable words,” the letter added.

“The verbal assault and defamation of our client by you, is intentionally orchestrated to tarnish our client’s reputation, destroy the peace in her marriage and make her loose patronage in her thriving business.

“TAKE NOTE that should you fail to comply with this modest demand as stated above within the next 24 (Twenty-Four) Hours, we shall have no other option than to take appropriate legal action against you.”

The development comes at about the same time when Falz, the rapper, gave VeryDarkMan a 24-hour ultimatum to retract alleged defamatory statements against him.

Jude ‘MI’ Abaga has labelled Odumodublvck as the “hottest rapper in Nigeria”.

In an interview with Goldmynetv, MI, an ace rapper, said he admires Odumodublvck because he is a “uniting force”.

The 42-year-old record producer said he likes how Odumodublvck promotes other artistes and connects with the older ones.

MI also said Odumodublvck’s sound is “unique and different” while expressing his admiration for him.

“I think the rapper that is probably top of the game right now and the thing I love about him so much is because he has been such a uniting force,” he said.

“A uniting force bringing the old school and new school together, promoting rappers from his city.

“He is unique, different and stands out. I have a lot of respect and life for him. His name is Odumodublvck.”

Odumodublvck also thanked Abaga for the compliment in a post via X.

ID Cabasa, the Nigerian music producer, has dismissed the Jamaican reggae icon Buju Banton’s deprecatory view of Afrobeats.

Last month, Banton, who is one of the well-regarded artistes in Jamaican music, described Afrobeats as a “shallow and unsubstantial music genre”.

The 51-year-old, born Mark Anthony Myrie, argued that despite its global recognition, the genre does not spotlight the struggles of Africa, unlike the politically charged and culturally rooted messages of Reggae and Dancehall.

In a chat with TheCable Lifestyle and Nigerian Guardian, Cabasa, 49, addressed Banton’s criticism of Afrobeats, suggesting the Jamaican “lacks understanding of the genre’s language and style”.

The music executive highlighted the genre’s depth and substance, citing the quality of music from artistes like Burna Boy, BNXN, Olamide, and Asake.

Cabasa, the founder of Coded Tunes, the record label that brought Olamide, 9ice, 2Shotz, Reminisce, Lord of Ajasa, Ajayi Brovas, 2Phat, Seriki and Banky W to the limelight, also taunted Banton, saying his disapproval might have stemmed from the fact he got carried away with the “genre’s beat”.

“Buju Banton does not understand… can he speak our language? No,” he said.

“You know, when you go online, Nigerians are the most sarcastic people in the world. So when you don’t understand our sarcasm, when you don’t understand how we tell our stories, you will think there’s no story to it.

“Now, these guys, they present truth in a very simple way now… and because your (Banton) own generation sang and you were saying so many things, you think you are deeper than them.

“For me, depth is actually your ability to understand what’s supposed to be complicated and to break it down.

“I think one Kenyan proverb said that ‘if it takes you so many words to explain something, probably you don’t understand it’.

“So, these guys, they say stuff. You listen to Burna, you listen to BNXN, that we call Buju. You listen to Olamide, you listen to Asake. Are you going to tell me that there’s no substance in what Asake is doing?

“So, a lot is coming in. That you don’t understand it doesn’t mean that you should just criticize it. I think he is falling in love so much with the beat, which was why he said what he said.

“But we know when people say there’s no substance to it, we know it’s a fallacy. There is substance to it but people need to understand what these guys are saying.”

Cabasa spoke on Thursday at the memorial lecture of Denis Joseph Slattery, the late cleric, in Lagos.

The Slattery memorial lecture was organised by the Old Boys’ Association of St. Finbarr’s College at the Civic Centre in Victoria Island. The music executive is a member of the association.

The memorial was attended by notable persons including Donald Duke, former governor of Cross River, ex-footballer Segun Odegbami, and actor Patrick Doyle.

Earlier this month, Tems, the Grammy winner, also stressed that Afrobeats is meant for “vibes and enjoyment”, adding that “the climate of Nigeria calls for it”.