Controversial social media critic, Martins Otse, popularly called Verydarkman, has said that he regretted not replying to late Nollywood actor, John Paul Odonwodo, popularly known as Junior Pope’s Instagram message.
The 27-year-old, who recently regained his freedom from police custody in Abuja for alleged cyberbullying, shared the video on his Instagram account.
The message Junior Pope sent to Verydarkman read, “Brother, how are you doing? I need to speak with you man-to-man, something very, very urgent, get back to me when you see this message.”
Verydarkman said, “We were talking about Junior Pope, I told the guys there that Junior Pope actually sent me a DM. I had to go look for the DM. He sent me the DM on February 23.
“Immediately I saw this DM, I did a screenshot, but I did not reply. Now, I regret it 100 per cent. I regret it so much that I didn’t reply because of what the DM says, because he literally said, “I need to speak to you man-to-man, is something very, very urgent.”
“Man-to-man means he did not want to talk to me on the phone. He didn’t want to send a message. He just wanted to have a conversation. I don’t know what the conversation was, but now that he done kpai, I realised that it would have been a very serious conversation that maybe would have avoided anything. When I came back to his DM, he had deleted it.
“I did not respond because, uhmm, I don’t like most of these celebrities in this country. Some of them try to fan me when they see me on the road and I have had experience with one of two of them and I know that most of them want to come close to me because of what I do. They might be scared that “ok, this one fit come call me out tomorrow, so let me just try to be his friend.’
“Only God know wetin Junior Pope bin wan tell me, like I said I regret am 100 percent.”
Junior Pope and four other actors drowned after their boat capsized on Anam River in Anambra State on Wednesday, April 10, 2024, while returning from a movie shoot.