Extra problem For Singer Runtown As Eric Many Slams Him With recent N267million Lawsuit

It seems the on-going legal combat between Nigerian singer, Runtown and his report label, Eric Many is a ways from over. This is when you consider that the label who at the start issued a court docket injunction towards him a couple of months back claiming damages of N65 million naira back then, has just slammed the singer with a N267 million naira suit at the Federal excessive court docket, Abuja.

In step with the label, the brand new court docket Injunction was slammed on Runtown given that he is owing the label N267 million and he has not additionally adhered in line to give his album effectively and he has intentionally tried to register the name Runtown without the label's consent and abscond from contract.

In a assertion, the label's common manager, Johnson Adumike said, 'as you are aware, these days now we have been in court with Runtown over copyrights issues in relation to two collabo videos he made with out our prior approval.  Truly, the much-publicized legal action at the Federal excessive court in Lagos used to be, opposite to what many consider, not on the whole contract we signed with Runtown. It was once handiest on the unapproved collabo movies and we claimed common damages of about N65 Million for the copyright infringement'.

He went on so as to add that, 'we had idea that Runtown would see reason to retrace his steps on our Contract following the â��warning caseâ�� on copyright infringement. This was once not to be as he took to the social media, in particular Twitter, dishing out insults on our Chairman, Prince Okwudili Umenyiora, boasting that he was not with Ericmany. His elder brother joined on Instagram boasting that his manufacturer â��JSparrowMediaâ��  is now the man or woman reserving Runtownâ��s indicates and no longer Ericmany. Below our Contract, the authentic identify â��Runtownâ�� and different names are licensed to Ericmany. But Runtown went to emblems Registry in Abuja and has been working to take the names from us'.

'These and lots of other disorders thrown up via the copyrights suit demonstrated to us that indeed Runtown had walked out on us. We as a consequence made up our minds to sue him for complete breach of contract, to the sum of N266,694,755'.

'whilst our Contract is meant to fall due for expiration on twenty second June 2018, Ericmany now has an extremely good steadiness of about N266,694,755.08 to recoup on our funding and fees on Runtown�s profession. He is also but to give an Album which the Contract requires him to provide to us for the period of the Contract interval.

"The Contract spells out the procedure for the production of the Album. Runtown is but to provoke the procedure, whilst he focuses on Abuja trademarks Registry scheming on find out how to make us lose grip of his reputable name'.

'last Wednesday, twenty third may just 2018, following the advice of our attorneys, we withdrew our case on the Federal high courtroom on the collabos to have more time and center of attention to pursue the case of breach of contract. Our legal professionals had told that when you consider that the breach of contract and restoration of our awesome sum of N266,694,755.08 is a larger photograph, it will be more cheap to drop the copyright case and focal point our vigor on the contract case. We accredited this recommendation and gave a go-forward for the Lagos Case to be withdrawn' he mentioned.