Human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi, has stated that he did not ask anyone to plead with Afe Babalola (SAN).
Farotimi is currently standing trial in Ekiti State for a defamation suit filed against him by the legal icon
regarding his book, ‘Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice
System.
Earlier, the 2023 presidential candidate of the
Labour Party and a close ally of Farotimi, Peter Obi,
recently paid a visit to Babalola, and it was alleged that the visit was to plead with Babalola on Farotimi’s behalf.
Speaking to Inside Sources with Laolu Akande,
Temokun, a lawyer for Dele Farotimi, stated that during a prison visit on Friday, Dec 13, Farotimi denied asking Obi to appeal to Babalola or seek an out-of-court settlement.
“I visited Mr Dele Farotimi in a correctional service in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, yesterday afternoon. The events of the recent days, the visit of Mr Peter Obi, the (2023) presidential candidate of the Labour Party, to Aare Afe Babalola; his visit to Mr Dele Farotimi, created some lack of clarity. People are not so clear about some things.
People are not clear about what is going on. It is based on this that I had to visit him yesterday, and we sat together and had a good discussion.
The Issue Of Apology
After Peter Obi left Ekiti, the news that filtered through the town to the issue of the conditions for release, the issue of apology, the issue of whether Mr Dele Farotimi can do this or that to come out.
I told him (Farotimi): the reason why I am here is to
confirm from you, What do you think should be done?’
The visit of Mr Peter Obi to you in person and the
subsequent visit to Aare Afe Babalola: What do you
know about it? What is your message to Aare Afe
Babalola? What is your message to the people outside?
What is also your message to me as part of your legal team?
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He (Farotimi) said if anybody who is very familiar with his antecedents, with his principles, with his philosophy over time should join anybody to believe that in a matter where he had written a book that he had published and that had been in circulation, that if anybody, somebody who has a brain should join others to believe that he has sent anybody to beg anybody, he said he will be disappointed.
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