Popular Gospel artist Mercy Chinwo has slammed a N2 billion lawsuit against Secular musician Obidiz, for derogatorily using her name and image in secular music audio and video.
This came after Obidiz released a commercial for a song entitled ‘Mercy Chinwo’ on February 10, 2023, with the gospel crooner’s picture as the cover image.
Minstrel Mercy Chinwo through her lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, in a letter dated March 23 and addressed to Obidiz Lawson, ordered the secular singer to take down the music audio and video from all music digital platforms.
The letter read inter alia, “It came to our client’s rude shock that you recently released and published a song titled ‘Mercy Chinwo’ containing disparaging and derogatory lyrics…”
It added, “That you take down or cause to be taken down, the song titled ‘Mercy Chinwo’ which you published on be taken down immediately from all music digital platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, and any other platform whereby you made such publication.”
Obidiz was quoted comparing wayward club girls to the gospel artiste while citing her name and using her picture to promote the song.
The minister’s lawyers have since sent a cease and desist letter to Obidiz to refrain from using her name and image in the promotion of his music.
The gospel singer’s attorneys directed Obidiz to promptly comply with their client’s demands, “failure upon which the full machinery of the law will be set in motion against you including approaching the Court of Law to award damages against you to the tune of N2,000,000,000.00 (Two Billion Naira) in a favour of our client.”
So far the news has generated mixed reactions online as some commented on the fact that the lawsuit only gave the artist and his music fame.
Some of the tweets and comments on Twitter are quoted below
Osakwe Ifeanyi Tweeted “I Had to Check out the song. The Streams this song will get are going to be massive. He had too much joor. He deserves the suit. From title to pictures from the album art to beret.Haba
While Duzie Tweeted “The Song doesn’t suit her personality. She also has a brand to maintain.”
As of the time of this publication , Obidiz is yet to respond to the lawsuit and also hasn’t taken the song off any digital music platform.
