GardenOfGod:
Is the statement of a JSC law?
At the bolded... Has the case been tried before to consider whether it falls under a criminal offense or not? Or was it hastily declared without due process to be a criminal offense?

The Police is acting and prosecuting based on a petition claiming criminal defamation. It’s a process I believe is not neo to you.

It seem you've never being defame before....you cannot understand the trauma.

SalamRushdie:


The SAN is only soiling his the pages of how he will be remembered, there was no need to abduct uncle Dele over this ..The SAN is the loser in all this ;

He has made Uncle Dele more popular

He has made the book to sell more and circulate further than it would have .

By 10th of December Unc Dele will be granted bail and the SAN would have lost his advantage in the case .

Now after a stellar 68 years career imagine that when anyone googles his name going forward they will be hit with stories of how he he uses the police to abduct a fellow lawyer across state lines in a rendition that could only be described as brazen human abuse ..


The SAN should have handled this better

seunmsg:


Chief Afe Babalola was defamed unnecessary by Dele Farotimi. Since he’s still very much alive, it’s better fit his reputation to fight against the lies. You have no reputation to protect so you can’t understand why someone like Afe Babalola really needs to settle this issue legally once and for all.

The case has been charged to court and we should allow justice run its course. Dele either provides evidence to support his allegations or be sent to prison and made to pay huge fines. Freedom of speech is not absolute, it comes with responsibilities. If you can’t prove, don’t allege.

Can you confidently guarantee with absolute certainty and put your reputation on the line to vouch that Afe Babalola has never, throughout his entire career as a lawyer, engaged in or facilitated the manipulation of justice or influenced court decisions in his favour?

Dele Farotimi needs a season in jail to reset his brain. He has been talking out of turn, throwing his toxic diatribes against everybody in authority and influential personalities because of the fake obidient panache he assumed for himself. He believes he can talk anyhow and behaves anyhow and nothing will happen to him.

Nothing is sacred to him, including upright religious leaders, he abuses them at will.

His human right activism is suspect because it has political overtone, so no responsible Nigerian like him that much, except his rabid obedient followers.

He is a lawyer, let him talks himself out of this, he has no need of a legal representative. Just because you lose a case against your superior in the legal profession does not mean you should go about the town defaming that person's precious reputation. Let him suffer a bit, maybe it will tame his rancid utterances.

helinues:
Toh

Dele would learn in a bitter way this time. Unfortunately, those who have been hailing him online are just nobody with no influence anywhere.

Hope that boy VDM is learning something

Afe Babalola (SAN) just proved that 50% of what Dele Farotimi wrote about him were true. As a legal professional and an elder statesman, how can you send police from Ekiti to go and arrest someone in Lagos? Why not invite him to Ekiti and get him arrested? Dele was bold to release that book before Afe Bababola's demise bcoz he is in his 80's. There are consequences to every actions. Dele Farotimi be better prepared to prove his allegations were true. If not, he is in for a long run.

shonepa:
Was he ever invited by the police, that he refused.

Before kidnaping can stop in this country, make them hold the police force first.

Master Kidnapers!

He was serially invited. He insisted the matter was for detetmination in Lagos since the events and the fallouts occurred in Lagos.

He ignored the angle that the petitioners came from, that the book, the subject of the defamatory claims was sold outside of Lagos. The petitioner could have opted to sue him in the FCT on the same basis if he so wished.

Please does anyone have a link where I can get the book from

I plan of ordering like 10

And run promo ads on instagram to make the book more popular

There must be something in that book that is worth reading

Thank God it’s a book

Before the mumu SAN starts arresting anyone for reading a book

Someone defamed you using a pen and paper and you can’t use the same pen and paper to defend yourself and refute all allegations

All you can do is ARREST and bribe a judge to imprison them

Which country can this work in except Nigeria

So what we now happen if we criticise or defame tinubu he can just kill us and notjing will happen

This is not rule of law I’m afraid

The SAN should be extremely disappointed and ashamed

You didn’t teach anyone a lesson

If I was the Dele journalist once I get bail I will write more books and even criticise and repeat what I have already said that the SAN bribes judges and even use the last experience he had

The worse is prison , from prison he can even write more books

By fire by force we must make the country better and stop oppression

Pls who has a link to where I can get a copy of the book so I can do my part and run advertising promo for it

Thundafireseun:
Long but interesting read…

My major concern is why does Peter Obi feel that the police there was gross miss use of power by the police??

Dele should Defend himself…. Simple and short

It is because you think Obi is a person to be reckoned with that you take anything he says seriously. Chartalan should have a picture of Obi next to it in the dictionary.

DesChyko:
Okay.

So why is the case being tried in Ekiti where Afe Babalola is allegedly the largest employer of labour?

All of the locations in the petition says 'Lagos! Lagos!! Lagos!!!'

The petition says the printed material was distributed to Ekiti, read in Ekiti, and influenced the minds of his clientele in Ekiti as well as other parts of the world. It’s the law, the angles you choose to ignore can be the strengths upon which the other parties case is built.

StaffofOrayan:
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When people like Afe Babalola think their own freedom of speech supercedes that of others, this is what we get!
It's the dummmmies that support these crap that surprises me,

The people he mentioned their names should sue him too.
Period !!!!

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The dele looks like a mad man, Peter Hoebi should have some sense by now.Birds of a feather.

Pagenaija1:


You people are happy with oppression

If you think oppression is not taking laws into your hands when you are livid that you have reasonable grounds and incontrovertible facts that you have been criminally defamed, may you be criminally defamed then let's see what you will do. Talk is cheap.

helinues:
Toh

Dele would learn in a bitter way this time. Unfortunately, those who have been hailing him online are just nobody with no influence anywhere.

Hope that boy VDM is learning something

Dele glory will shine like Gani. Afe Babalola and co, and the likes who have made themselves stupendously rich through justice abracadabra will be exposed

seunmsg:


When you’re charged for a criminal offense, you will be remanded in prison pending your bail application if it is a bailable offense. Basic legal procedure.

FYI,

Defamation is no longer a criminal offence in state like Lagos where the alleged offence took place.
So Afe Babalola should have sued for damages if he feels defamed rather than using the Police and his alleged fraudulent contacts in judiciary to attempt to muscle his way.

His action is strongly condemned.

helinues:
Toh

Dele would learn in a bitter way this time. Unfortunately, those who have been hailing him online are just nobody with no influence anywhere.

Hope that boy VDM is learning something

You are struggling too hard to be relevant😏😏

FreeStuffsNG:
If you think oppression is not taking laws into your hands when you are livid that you have reasonable grounds and incontrovertible facts that you have been criminally defamed, may you be criminally defamed then let's see what you will do. Talk is cheap.

Gosh

Go get a life

helinues:
Toh

Dele would learn in a bitter way this time. Unfortunately, those who have been hailing him online are just nobody with no influence anywhere.

Hope that boy VDM is learning something

Quarrelling from one backyard.

SalamRushdie:


You dont realise that Afebabalola the owner of one of Nigerias most powerful law firms could have just sued Mr Dele and claimed restitution and damages instead of this show of shame that has done more damage to the reputation he so wants to protect. This was a bad route

The SAN could have done the following;

Sued Dele for Libel, slander and defamation

Get injunction stopping all publishing houses to withdraw the book from circulation pending the outcome of the litigation.

Doing this he will get justice and keep his reputation intact especially at such twilight of his his existence

None of you here is saying what Dele Farotimi should have done since he was so sure of what he was saying but the moment the aggrieved responded, boom, we all want to tell them how they should cry.

If Afe Babalola has kept mute, you all would have queued up behind Farotimi to continue soiling Babalola reputation-the same reputation you all seem too concerned about for a reason that beats me!

It is not your business how he chooses to seek redress because you all know this is a hard one to crack for Farotimi and if he is not careful he will end in jail or pay huge fine or even both!

Seunmsg has broken it down but your emotions has got you all on a leash and hey Farotimi has lawyers and they can take it up from this angle also if they consider it helpful for their case.

If you can't prove, don't allege! The likes of VDM anc co should better learn because none of you will go sit in prison if she*t goes sideways for them!

This is a pro max version of that lady that alleged against that tomato paste company without any proof and you all called the company bullies! Shey Una don keep quiet and you all have forgotten her abi?

I don't want to believe that Farotimi is no different from all the garrulous elements that litter our social media space; i believe he will "show workings" when the time comes because as a lawyer he should know that freedom of speech isn't absolute!

helinues:
Toh

Dele would learn in a bitter way this time. Unfortunately, those who have been hailing him online are just nobody with no influence anywhere.

Hope that boy VDM is learning something

If VDM do what he did against Falanas for persons like Afe Babalola, he would find himself in hot soup, thank God for human rights lawyer.

Thundafireseun:
Long but interesting read…

My major concern is why does Peter Obi feel that the police there was gross miss use of power by the police??

Dele should Defend himself…. Simple and short

Ok, your father's nightmare made such remark?

SalamRushdie:


You dont realise that Afebabalola the owner of one of Nigerias most powerful law firms could have just sued Mr Dele and claimed restitution and damages instead of this show of shame that has done more damage to the reputation he so wants to protect. This was a bad route

The SAN could have done the following;

Sued Dele for Libel, slander and defamation

Get injunction stopping all publishing houses to withdraw the book from circulation pending the outcome of the litigation.

Doing this he will get justice and keep his reputation intact especially at such twilight of his his existence

Abi ooo, super SAN is telling what ordinary SAN should do.

helinues:


Is it today Dele has been writing rubbish about others?

Someone must teach him a bitter lessons as he refused to separate emotions from his own journalism

The real question we should be asking is, did he lie? Whatever it is we will know someday

When burna has been holding speed for over 2 weeks now in police custody, I have not seen you guys statement on libel but as it is dele, a known obedient, the online spectators are now awake. Weldone. If someone writes a book of you in this way without facts, hope you will sit and watch your reputation you have built over 60 years plus get rubbished in the mud. I greet you sir

Baxilexi:
While this issue is in the purview of lawyers to debate the justifications for imprisonment. I would like to believe that’s not the punishment for libel.

You sue the individual, serve him and meet him in court. How do you imprison a person that has not been found guilty by a competent court of law?

Do we need more proof about the influence Mr Afe wields over the police or legal system?

Also, Mr Afe should put a sock in it, his hands are not unsoiled. Those who know the antecedent of LASG (a selected few) penchant for land grabbing will also be suspicious of the ruling in their favor, from Bourdilion to Maroko, to Oniru, to Elegushi, install a stooge or acquire land through staged legal proceedings.

Nigeria will develop someday, and I pray bullies, who abuse state power will have no place in it and our institution will be sanitized.

Lifestone:

He's in court already. You can't dictate to the aggrieved how to seek redress.
He's gone to court on the basis of Nigeria Criminal Code section 373 and 375 and not even under the cyber crime Act 2024 as ammended (so we all thought before).
The accused made so many defamatory statements that I do not see how he's going to prove all of them. He's a lawyer and should have known the possible consequences

Dele is exactly where he wants to be. I see the proverbial can of worms being opened. A lawyer doesn't toss about names without reason.

helinues:
Toh

Dele would learn in a bitter way this time. Unfortunately, those who have been hailing him online are just nobody with no influence anywhere.

Hope that boy VDM is learning something

That “boy” VDM is more relevant to Nigeria than you and your cohorts

seunmsg:
When you’re charged for a criminal offense, you will be remanded in prison pending your bail application if it is a bailable offense. Basic legal procedure.

Yeah, and this legal procedure involves attempted kidnapping and scheming to lure the employees of the accused?

Beremx:
If you're being defamed, you go to court and sue the defamer.

When are we going to get it right in this country?

The police handles cases of criminal defamation.

UnstableFC:


Defamation is not a case to be settled in court
Stop behaving like a fvcking monkey

It is settled in the shrine or football pitch.
Daft fool

chosen6:


FYI,

Defamation is no longer a criminal offence in state like Lagos where the alleged offence took place.
So Afe Babalola should have sued for damages if he feels defamed rather than using the Police and his alleged fraudulent contacts in judiciary to attempt to muscle his way.

His action is strongly condemned.

It’s a criminal offense in Ekiti, the state of residence of the petitioner.