Eniola Ajao says she pursued legal action against a blogger for defamation, resulting in his arrest and prosecution over a manipulated video from the funeral of Odunlade Adekola’s father.
The legal case stemmed from a viral video that circulated in August. The clip showed Ajao hugging Odunlade’s wife, but viewers criticised the actress’ facial expressions and body language, accusing her of disrespect.
In a statement shared on Instagram, the 36-year-old actress confirmed that blogger Adabasioni Oluwafemi Aseoro was charged with criminal defamation and cyberbullying.
Ajao said the individual had edited a clip from the funeral to create a false narrative, leading to his detention at Ikoyi prison for two weeks.
The film star revealed that she ultimately forgave the blogger after he apologised, citing the influence of his mother and wives. The actress also issued a stern warning to other online trolls.
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“Hello everyone, after deep consultations with my media and legal team, it became important for me to publicly address this once and for all,” she wrote.
“I can confirm the arrest and prosecution of Adabasioni Oluwafemi Aseoro, a blogger for criminal defamation and cyberbullying under the Nigerian Cyber Crime Acts. This blogger went online to make derogatory and unfounded claims against my person, following my appearance at the burial of our Late father PA N.A Adekola the father of my BOSS, Ambassador Odunlade Adekola.
“Over the past few years, I’ve been a target for cheap bloggers and social media trolls. I endured bants even when I labor hard to put my work out there but God has always shown up to elevate me above these enemies of progress who use social media as a tool against me.
“Adabasioni took videos of me, which was made by another party blogger with malicious intentions. Adabasioni manipulated the video to suit his narrative and posted it online to achieve his trolling goal, I became a subject of ridicule, no one questioned the highly-manipulated video, I chose to respond for once by taking legal actions, the said blogger was arrested to produce his evidences as claimed in the video, he had none and I ensured he was detained in prison for two good weeks at the Ikoyi prison, He assassinated my character, he paid for it in full!
“His family and friends who didn’t caution him when he made the video joined him to beg me when I responded legally. Of course, Eniola is a gentlewoman. I have forgiven him after he apologized and retracted the report of calumny he posted, I pitied his mother but this is the way going forward. You want to drive traffic to your page with defamatory stories, you will pay dearly for your foolishness.”
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