Social media personality DJ Chicken has been arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court over alleged death threats against Seyi Tinubu, pleaded not guilty to three charges and was remanded after being granted bail with stringent conditions.
Popular social media personality Ademola Abiodun, better known as DJ Chicken, was on Friday arraigned before a Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ogba, Lagos, over allegations of issuing a death threat against Seyi Tinubu, son of President Bola Tinubu. The content creator appeared before Magistrate M.F. Onamusi on a three-count charge bordering on alleged threat to kill, conduct likely to cause a breach of peace and offences under the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act, 2015.
According to the prosecution, as reported by Daily Trust, the charges stem from a video posted on DJ Chicken’s social media platforms last week in which he allegedly threatened Seyi Tinubu while commenting on the 2027 presidential election. Prosecutors told the court that the video contained statements interpreted as a threat to kill, contrary to the Criminal Law of Lagos State and the Cybercrime Act. Following public backlash, the defendant released another video withdrawing the remarks, describing them as a joke intended to attract attention and insisting he had no intention of harming Seyi Tinubu. Despite the retraction, the state proceeded with criminal charges.
The first count alleges that DJ Chicken posted a video containing a threat to kill Seyi Tinubu, contrary to Section 232 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015. The second accuses him of transmitting a grossly offensive and menacing message through a computer network, contrary to Section 24 of the Cybercrime Act, while the third alleges conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace and intended to intimidate or embarrass the complainant under Section 168(d) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
DJ Chicken pleaded not guilty to all three charges. Magistrate Onamusi granted him bail in the sum of N1 million with two sureties in like sum, subject to stringent conditions.
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