Dele Farotimi’s lawyer, Tope Temokun, has said that his client did not send the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, to beg legal icon, Afe Babalola.
Recall that human rights lawyer Dele Farotimi was arrested by the Police and remanded over alleged defamation of the person of Afe Babalola in his book.
During this period, Obi had visited Babalola, SAN, in Ado-Ekiti and pleaded with him to consider the “situation” of Farotimi, who is currently in 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.
