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Court restrains Do2dtun from defaming D’banj
On-air personality Kayode Oladotun, also known as Do2dtun, has been ordered by a Chief District Court in the Federal Capital Territory’s Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, to refrain from posting defamatory posts against musician Oladapo Oyebanjo, also known as D’banj, on social media or any other platform.
On Wednesday, October 18, 2023, the court, His Honor Emmanuel Iyanna, granted the injunction in the matter involving Motion No. MN/218/2023.
Toheeb Lawal of the Abuja-based legal company Law Corridor, representing D’banj, submitted a request for an injunction prohibiting Do2dtun from making nasty and defamatory remarks about him on social media to the court.
In granting the application, which has D’banj as the complainant and Do2dtun as the respondent, Iyanna granted “an order restraining the defendant (Do2dtun) either by himself, servants, privies, cohorts, representatives, or any person deriving authority from him from further making any malicious, intimidating or defamatory post directing at the complainant (D’banj) on any social media platform (X, Instagram, etc) or news media pending the hearing and determination of the substantive case”.
Additionally, the court mandated that the Force Intelligence Bureau’s Deputy Inspector of Police look into a criminal complaint filed by D’banj against Do2dtun and submit a report to the court in a fortnight.
Do2dtun had been attacking D’banj on social media for several weeks. The OAP wed Taiwo, D’banj’s sister, in 2013, and the couple had two daughters.
But in November 2021, Taiwo filed for divorce from Do2dtun, citing “unending reckless emotional abuse, forced abortion, and vicious domestic violence,” in Court 23, High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Suit Number: GWD/PET/25/2021. Taiwo claimed that Do2dtun’s actions had a negative impact on her general health and well-being.
Do2dtun recently claimed that he was denied access to his daughter, but Taiwo refuted her ex-husband’s claim.
She stated that the entertainer has access to their children, despite what her ex-husband claimed regarding child custody.
Taiwo described her experiences in the marriage, including emotional and physical abuse, and how Do2dtun took her to a hospital where she was forced to have a five-month pregnancy aborted.