NIGERIA: The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi on Monday evening 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.
It was reliably gathered that Obi’s visit to Babalola was in connection with ongoing court case preferred against human rights lawyer and activist, Dele Farotimi, reports The Nation.
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 had 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.
