Dele Farotimi’s lawyer, Tope Temokun, disclosed that his client didn’t tell Peter Obi, a former presidential candidate to beg legal luminary, Afe Babalola as many may have thought.
This comes after Obi, an ally of Farotimi paid a courtesy visit to Babalola following the incaseration of the Lagos-based lawyer in Ekiti.
Recall that Farotimi was arrested in Lagos and transported to Ekiti by the police for allegedly defaming the lawyer and other prominent Nigerians in his book.
His arrest and subsequent trial have since been the subject of intense debate since it became public.
Farotimi was sent back to jail after the ruling on his bail application was adjourned till December 20, 2024.
During this period, Obi had visited Babalola, SAN, in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State and pleaded with him to consider the “situation” of Farotimi, who is currently cooling his feet at the Ekiti prison.
According to Channels Television, Temokun said Farotimi is in high spirits and he is optimistic that he would defeat his challengers in the different courts, revealing he had never sent anyone to plead on his behalf.
“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,” the lawyer said.
