Mr. Tommy Ojoge-Daniel, a lawyer to Miss Seyitan Babatayo, who accused musician Oladapo Oyebanjo aka D’Banj of raping her in 2018, has told Nigerians not to donate money for the settlement of her legal fees.
Ojoge-Daniel said this during an interview with The PUNCH on Saturday in reactiton to an online publication calling on Nigerians to donate money to fund her legal fees.
A post on Twitter by @wineandwhineng read, “Hi everyone. Together, today, we raised N1,640,000 for the legal fund, all of which have been properly remitted to and accounted for with @StandtoEndRape
“This will help us kick-start the defence process and also help Seyitan herself. Thank you to everyone who lent their voice.”
The lawyer, however, said he was pursuing the case for free and there was therefore no need for Nigerians to donate any money.
A certain lady, Seyitan, had penultimate week, called out Dbanj for forcefully having sex with her in a Lagos hotel in 2018.
She said her hurt increased when she observed that the crooner also put up a post on Instagram condemning rape of some young ladies.
Currently, her lawyers have sent a letter to Dbanj demanding among other things that he apologized publicly.
Meanwhile, Dbanj had also sent a court notification through his legal counsel, Mike Ozekhome demanding for public apology with N100m as damages.
“Whether it was overzealous police officers/Dbanj/his handlers that orchestrated it – locking Seyitan and/or her Mom in jail, seizing her phone, preventing her from reaching her lawyers/family etc is completely wrong – and I hope Dbanj will denounce it himself,” he added.
Meanwhile, a petition which sought to see the United Nations, UN end the ambassadorial deal with singer, D’banj following a rape allegation against him garnered over 15, 000 signatures last week on twitter.
The petition was started by E.Pooola 20 hours ago on Change.Org had hit 14, 310 as of 11.10 am on Friday. Brands like Heritage Bank Africa, One Africa, CSA Global, and others are also asked to end their deals with the singer.
There were rumours that Heritage Bank, who made Dbanj , a brand ambassador on his birthday last week, had also withdrawn the contract which Dbanj tagged as one of his ‘biggest deals.”
