The founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Aare Afe Babalola (SAN), on Thursday, dismissed insinuations that he was using his clout to deal with human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi, who an Ekiti State Magistrates Court remanded on Wednesday.
This was as a group, Take It Back Movement, convened by the former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has begun mobilisation for protests in Ekiti, Lagos, Abuja and London as the group criticised the police and the judiciary in the handling of the case.
Also, pan-Yoruba sociopolitical organisation, Afenifere, faulted Farotimi’s remand by the magistrate.
The police in Ekiti State had, following a petition written by Babalola, arrested Farotimi in Lagos on Tuesday and arraigned him before the court in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday over allegations bordering on defaming Babalola.
While the police prayed the court to remand Farotimi in a correctional facility, the defence lawyer pleaded for bail for his client, but the Chief Magistrate, Abayomi Adeosun, ordered Farotimi remanded as he adjourned the matter till December 10, 2024.
