Human rights lawyer Dele Farotimi has said VeryDarkMan has effectively replaced the judiciary as the hope of the common man in Nigeria.
Farotimi made the comment in a YouTube video while reacting to the controversy over VeryDarkMan’s invitation to the Nigerian Bar Association’s 66th Annual General Conference in Port Harcourt.
He said the activist’s growing influence shows how badly Nigeria’s police and judicial systems have failed ordinary citizens.
“A society that has law and order, that is ruled by law, that has a functional police system, a functional court system, would not even tolerate the presence or existence of a VDM. VDM is the life indictment of a judicial system that is essentially peopled by crooks in the place of jurists. That’s what VDM is.”
Farotimi described VeryDarkMan as a reflection of society’s failures, warning that attacking him would not fix the problems behind his rise.
“It’s easier to find justice through the types and likes of VDM than through your courts. They say the judiciary is the last hope of the common man. Nah, lie.”
He warned that more activists could emerge if the justice system remained unchanged.
“Very soon there will be multiplicities of VDM in the society that you have built.”
Farotimi urged Nigerians to examine the justice system instead of focusing only on VeryDarkMan.
“If the courts are useless, the VDMs of this world will emerge.”
The comments followed VeryDarkMan’s criticism of the legal profession after appearing at the NBA conference.
