The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party
(LP), Peter
Obi on Monday evening reportedly visited the renowned legal icon
and founder of Afe Babalola University, Chief Afe Babalola in his office in
Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti state capital.
Obi was warmly received by the top aide of Babalola
who subsequently ushered him in for a closed-door meeting.
The Nation reliably gathered that Obi’s visit to
Babalola was in connection with ongoing court case preferrred against human
rights lawyer and activist, Dele Farotimi.
Impeccable sources disclosed that the visit was
reportedly arranged by former president, Olusegun Obasanjo towards finding
amicable resolution to the legal issue.
it was also learnt that Obi after visiting Babalola,
visited Farotimi at the Ado-Ekiti Correctional Centre located along Afao Road,
Ado-Ekiti, where he has a session with him.
According to findings, Obi’s visit to the human right
lawyer was said to be a follow-up to his meeting with Babalola which lasted
over one hour.
Efforts made to speak with Obi after the one-hour
meeting proved abortive as he ignored journalists, quietly entered his car, and
left the premises
The human rights lawyer was last week arraigned before
a Magistrate Court in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, over alleged defamation of
character following his book, ‘Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System’ where
he alleged, among others, that Babalola, had compromised the Supreme
Court.
The trial is expected to resume tomorrow at the
Magistrate Court.
The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun also
filed a fresh suit marked FHC/AD/CR/ 104/2024 against Farotimi before the
Ado-Ekiti Federal High Court bordering on cybercrime.
Even though the Court granted Farotimi bail of N50m in
like sum with someone with landed property in Ekiti , his team were still
working on perfecting the bail conditions, as of the time of filing the report.
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