Legal Battles with Afe Babalola’s Law Firms Still Ongoing – Dele Farotimi

Nigerian Activist and lawyer Dele Farotimi has disclosed that he is still embroiled in four separate suits filed by members of Aare Afe Babalola’s law firm in different states.

This claim follows Babalola’s recent withdrawal of his defamation case against him.

In an interview with Toyin Falola on Sunday, February 16, Farotimi disclosed that the case is still ongoing.

“My inability to speak to certain aspects of this issue is borne out of the fact that, despite the discontinuation of the criminal proceeding, I still have four suits that I am aware of in four different states of the federation, filed by members of the same law office, against my person.”

The controversy surrounding Farotimi’s book, “Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System,” led to his arrest and arraignment in two courts in Ekiti. However, after the intervention of top traditional rulers, Babalola withdrew the case.

Farotimi maintained that his book is a well-researched work documenting his experiences and observations about the Nigerian judicial system. “I did not sit down in a beer parlour; I was not at an officers’ mess; I was not gossiping. It was not idle, cheap talk. I wrote a book. Let us deal with veracity. Anybody can go and read and then come back and challenge me with the lie that I have told.”

He emphasized that his work was written in pursuit of justice, not as an attack on individuals. “This is not a trial of Dele Farotimi. Let nobody make that error. It is a trial of the legal system that we have built as a collective.”