Human rights activist and former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, Omoyele Sowore, has railed against the visit of the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, to legal luminary, Aare Afe Babalola SAN, allegedly over the ongoing face-off between Babalola and Human Rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi.
Sowore’s reaction came hours after Peter Obi’s closed door meeting with Afe Babalola in Ado Ekiti, capital of Ekiti State.
As part of the visit to the state, Obi also had some sessions with the detained activist, Farotimi, in the Correctional Centre where he is being kept pending when he would fulfilled bail conditions.
Reacting to the visit on his X handle on Monday night, Sowore wrote “I condemn those who went to ‘beg’ Chief Afe Babalola today over unjust detention and persecution of DeleFarotimi. The delegation led by PeterObi did colossal injustice to the struggle to drain the swamp of judicial criminality in our country.
“Obi’s action is like forcing Rosa Parks to return to the back of the bus of racial injustice during the civil rights era in the United States! The struggle continues!FreeDeleFarotimiNow.”
Obi’s visit was reportedly arranged by a prominent Yoruba leader to find an amicable resolution to the legal issue between Babalola and Farotimi.
Farotimi, who was arrested in Lagos last Tuesday, was arraigned before a magistrate court in Ado-Ekiti on Wednesday on a 16-count charge of defamation of character against Afe Babalola.
On Friday, December 6, 2024, the Nigerian police filed fresh cybercrime charges against Farotimi at the Federal High Court in Ekiti.
The Federal High Court on Monday December 9 granted Farotimi N50 million bail with other stringent conditions which his team was still working on perfecting as at the time of filing this report.
