Nigerian police officers may have colluded with VeryDarkMan to feed him confidential information about Blord’s detention at the Kuje Correctional Centre.
The claims, reported exclusively by Sahara Reporters, add a fresh and troubling dimension to a controversy that has already drawn accusations of prosecutorial misconduct, judicial stalling, and the deliberate weaponisation of the legal system against a private citizen.
Background: How Blord Ended Up in Kuje
Linus Williams Ifejirika, popularly known as Blord, was remanded at the Kuje Correctional Centre for 26 days after being arraigned before the Federal High Court in Abuja on April 1, 2026, over allegations of criminal conspiracy, impersonation, and unauthorised use of the identity of social media activist Martins Vincent Otse, widely known as VeryDarkMan.
The charges, filed by the Inspector-General of Police, include accusations that Blord fraudulently used VeryDarkMan’s identity, image, and brand to promote his business ventures, including falsely claiming that VeryDarkMan endorsed his Billpoint platform as the “number one app” for booking local and international flights. (Sahara Reporters)
VeryDarkMan’s Access to Confidential Information Questioned
Blord’s associates had earlier raised red flags about VeryDarkMan’s suspiciously detailed knowledge of legal developments inside the case, including information about a counter-affidavit filed by the police to oppose Blord’s bail application — documents that would not ordinarily be accessible to a complainant in real time.
The inference drawn by multiple voices close to the case is that police personnel sympathetic to VeryDarkMan were feeding him confidential updates from within the system — a claim that, if proven, would constitute a serious breach of prosecutorial neutrality.
Activist Omoyele Sowore, who has been monitoring the case closely, expressed suspicion about the nature of police conduct, saying: “Unfortunately, and I mean this unfortunately, the police filed a counter in a case that shouldn’t have come to court in the first place. And that is why we are suspicious that even when you have a new police Inspector General, they are not different from the old ones.”
Bail Stalled, Judge Goes “Unreachable”
The case took a deeply troubling turn after the police unexpectedly withdrew their counter-affidavit opposing Blord’s bail — a move that should ordinarily have paved the way for a swift hearing — but proceedings stalled because the presiding judge became reportedly unavailabe.
Sources close to the matter questioned whether the pattern reflected administrative dysfunction or something more deliberate. “This pattern is becoming all too familiar: once the prosecution’s case weakens, the system stalls. Is this administrative inefficiency, or a deliberate attempt to prolong detention under the cover of judicial absence?” one source said. “Every passing day without a hearing is another day of liberty denied, not by law, but by dysfunction.”
Sowore: “This Was Timed for the Holidays”
Sowore had earlier alleged that the timing of Blord’s arraignment was deliberately engineered to ensure maximum detention, saying: “This was timed to coincide with the Easter holidays so that Blord would not get a quick date. And after the Easter holidays, all the judges went on vacation. And they are resuming today. But resuming today doesn’t mean that they will take cases from today.”
VeryDarkMan and the IGP Meeting Claim
The police collusion allegations arrive in the wake of a separate but related controversy. Sahara Reporters had earlier reported exclusively that VeryDarkMan held a secret night meeting with Inspector-General of Police Tunji Disu in Abuja, with the publication claiming the meeting was connected to discussions involving activist Sowore.
VeryDarkMan reacted furiously to that report, challenging both Sahara Reporters and Sowore to prove the claim within one hour or shut down their platforms. “You have 1 hour to prove this to Nigerians or shut down your pages — man is embarrassing himself,” he wrote on X.
Sowore, for his part, distanced himself from the IGP meeting allegation, stating: “I did not say VeryDarkMan met with IGP Disu — Sahara Reporters did.”
The Nigeria Police Force had not responded to the latest collusion allegations as of the time of this report. Blord’s next court date is scheduled for April 27, 2026.
