Renowned Senior Advocate of Nigeria and founder of Afe Babalola University, Aare Afe Babalola, has revealed the circumstances surrounding the arrest of human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi.
Babalola explained that Farotimi defamed him in a recently published book.
The allegations stem from a Supreme Court ruling related to a land dispute that had lasted for over two decades.
In a petition dated November 19, addressed to Ekiti State Commissioner of Police, Adeniran Akinwale, Babalola outlined how his law firm discovered defamatory content in Farotimi’s book, Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System.
He claimed the book contained multiple defamatory statements that tarnished his reputation, accusing his law firm of unethical behavior, including corrupting the judiciary.
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Babalola also stated that the book accused him of “corrupting the Supreme Court over the years, leading it to commit grievous acts of injustice and evil.”
The petition reads, “I write to report the criminal defamation of myself, my law firm Afe Babalola & Co and my lawyers in person of Olu Daramola SAN and Ola Faro by one Dele Farotimi in his book titled ‘NIGERIA AND ITS CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM’ published by Dele Farotimi publishers in respect of Suit no: SC/146/2005: Major Muritala Gbadamosi Eletu & Ors V. H.R.H Oba Tijani Akinloye & Ors.
“Sometime on 2/11/2024, one of our lawyers while travelling through Murtala Muhammed Airport bought a book by Dele Farotimi titled ‘NIGERIA AND ITS CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM’ published by Dele Farotimi publishers. He read the said book and immediately brought it to my attention. Many of my lawyers also bought the said book and read same.”
“The said defamatory statements are detailed below:
“That Aare Afe Babalola corrupted the Supreme Court to procure a fraudulent judgement in the service of his client.
“That Aare Afe Babalola, Olu Daramola, Olu Faro and the law offices of Afe Babalola & Co, (Emmanuel Chambers) compromised the Supreme Court and the remaining semblance of integrity it might have had when they went back to the Supreme Court and got the Court to swim in the sewer of corruption and shameful self-Abnegation.”
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