A magistrate court in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, has refused to grant bail to human rights lawyer Dele Farotimi.
At the resumed hearing of the case on Tuesday, Magistrate Abayomi Adeosun adjourned Dele Farotimi’s bail application until December 20 after the police counsel, Mr. Samson Osobu, successfully argued that the application was incompetent and irregular.
Persecondnews reported that elder statesman and legal icon, nonagenarian Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), had accused Farotimi of defaming him in a book titled, “Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice System.”
He was arrested by the police in Lagos on Tuesday and subsequently ferried to Ekiti State by road.
The human rights activist was subsequently arraigned on defamation charges before an Ekiti State Magistrates’ Court last Wednesday, with Magistrate Adeosun ordering his remand in the correctional centre until today, December 10, for the hearing of his bail application.
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