Social media influencer and critic, Martins Ortse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), has denied allegations of threatening the life of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, over the revocation of a land belonging to the family of late Colonel Paul Osakpamwan Ogbebor.
The controversy arose after a video went viral on social media, claiming that Wike revoked the Ogbebor family’s property, originally allocated in 1981. Following this, a WhatsApp broadcast surfaced, alleging that VeryDarkMan threatened the minister’s life.
Reacting to the claims, VeryDarkMan publicly distanced himself from the allegations, emphasizing that he uses his platform solely to seek justice for the oppressed.
Posting on Instagram, he stated, “I did not threaten Nyesom Wike’s life. I am not associated with the WhatsApp broadcast making the rounds. I was only appealing to the minister to take a second look at the land documents presented by the sons and family of late Colonel Paul Osakpamwan Ogbebor, who was a war veteran and the first cadet of the NDA code 001. All the land documents and allocations are genuine.”
VDM further clarified that his original video, posted on WhatsApp, had been edited and misrepresented with a misleading caption. He said, “There is this particular land I posted on WhatsApp regarding the land that Wike revoked. Someone edited my video with a new caption, making it look like I’m the one who did it. Please, I’m not associated with threatening anybody’s life; it’s not in my character or nature.
“What I do with my platform is to speak up for people who are oppressed and seek justice when they are in the right part of the law. I have never threatened anybody’s life before, so imagine that they will now claim I’m threatening Wike. The only thing I did in that video was to plead that he could take a second look at those people’s documents because they are the sole owners of that land.”
