Popular lawyer and activist, Dele Farotimi arrived at the Ekiti Magistrate Court on Friday, with heavy security comprising policemen and other law enforcement agents sighted.
The security men were stationed around the court premises in the defamation case that has drawn national interest.
Daily Sun reported that Farotimi’s lawyer, Tope Temokun has clarified that the Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi was not sent to beg legal luminary Afe Babalola in the ongoing defamation case.
“He (Farotimi) said if anybody who is very familiar with his antecedents, with his principles, with his philosophy overtime 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 so disappointed in that person.
“He told me categorically that even you Tope, if you join anybody to believe that I could beg anybody or that I have sent anybody to beg anybody, I will be so disappointed in you,” he stated.
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