The Nigerian Bar Association has issued a statement condemning the arrest of Dele Farotimi and the attack of lawyers in his Law Firm.
Top Lawyers across the country have aligned with the position of the NBA and have called out the way and manner he was arrested, taken to Ado Ekiti , arraigned and kept in custody.
A Chief Magistrate’s Court in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, Wednesday, remanded him in prison over alleged defamation of Afe Babalola, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and founder of Afe Babalola University Ado Ekiti (ABUAD).
The police invaded Mr Farotimi’s office in Lekki, Lagos, on Tuesday to arrest him and take him to Ado Ekiti, following Mr Babalola’s petition.
The trial chief magistrate, Abayomi Adeosun, ordered that the defendant be remanded in the Ado Ekiti correctional centre for him to file a formal bail application.
He adjourned the case till Tuesday, 10 December, for the court to hear the bail application.
The prosecution, Samson Otsubu, had asked the court to remand Mr Farotimi in prison, while investigations continued.
He said Mr Farotimi’s co-conspirators are still at large and the published books are still in circulation.
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