Court restrains Do2dtun from defaming D’banj

• The Judge, His Honour, Emmanuel Iyanna, gave the injunction on Wednesday, October 18, 2023.
• The the court also ordered the Deputy Inspector of Police, Force Intelligence Bureau, to investigate a criminal complaint brought by D’banj against Do2dtun within two weeks and report back to court

A Federal Capital Territory Chief District Court in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, has prohibited on-air personality Kayode Oladotun, alias Do2dtun, from making disparaging remarks against musician Oladapo Oyebanjo, better known as D’banj, on social media or any other platform.

On Wednesday, October 18, 2023, His Honour Judge Emmanuel Iyanna issued the injunction in the case with Motion No. MN/218/2023.

D’banj requested an injunction from the court to stop Do2dtun from publishing harmful and defamatory posts about him on social media through one of his attorneys, Toheeb Lawal of the Abuja-based law company, Law Corridor.

Iyanna approved the application, in which D’banj is the complainant and Do2dtun is the defendant.

“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” the court granted.

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 within two weeks and submit a report to the court.

For several weeks, Do2dtun has been attacking D’banj on social media. The OAP wed D’banj’s sister, Taiwo, in 2013, and the couple had two daughters.

But in November 2021, Taiwo filed for divorce before Justice A.I. Akobi of Court 23, High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, in Suit Number: GWD/PET/25/2021, alleging that Do2dtun had subjected her to “unending reckless emotional abuse, forced abortion, and vicious domestic violence,” all of which she claimed had a negative impact on her health and general well-being.

Recently, Do2dtun claimed that he was forbidden from seeing his daughter, but Taiwo refuted that assertion.

She said that, in contrast to her ex-husband’s claims regarding the custody of their children, Do2dtun has access to their children.

Taiwo described her difficulties in the marriage—including instances of domestic violence and emotional abuse—while relating how Do2dtun took her to a hospital where she was forced to abort a five-month-old pregnancy.