{"id":353957,"date":"2025-01-28T07:43:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T06:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=353957"},"modified":"2025-01-28T07:43:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T06:43:03","slug":"i-rejected-pleas-from-obj-kukah-to-drop-defamation-suit-against-dele-farotimi-afe-babalola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2025\/01\/28\/i-rejected-pleas-from-obj-kukah-to-drop-defamation-suit-against-dele-farotimi-afe-babalola\/","title":{"rendered":"I rejected pleas from OBJ, Kukah to drop defamation suit against Dele Farotimi \u2014 Afe Babalola"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>He said he declined numerous plum and juicy government appointments and positions because he didn&#8217;t want anyone to accuse him of corruptly enriching himself.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, ABUAD, Aare <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2025\/01\/27\/alleged-defamation-afe-babalola-withdraws-suit-against-farotimi\/\">Afe Babalola<\/a>, said he initially rejected pleas by influential and prominent to drop all criminal defamation suit against human rights activist, Mr Dele Farotimi.<\/p>\n<p>The legal luminary said he decided to drop the charges against Farotimi following the intervention of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Ogunwusi and other prominent traditional rulers in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThe Ewi of Ado has come here to meet me on this matter, former president Obasanjo has intervened. The same goes for Bishop Matthew Kukah and a host of other prominent Nigerians to ask for the exact thing you have come to ask for this evening. My answer to them has been no, but today my answer is yes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour coming is unquantifiable in terms of money, who Am I? When the colonialists came here in the 17th century or thereabouts, they found as a fact that Yoruba land was a highly organised society with an advanced system of government with each town headed by an Oba who was regarded as a replica of God on earth. His words were commands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said he declined numerous plum and juicy government appointments and positions because he didn&#8217;t want anyone to accuse him of corruptly enriching himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was a lawyer who defended the EFCC law, yet I\u2019m corrupt, I was given an oil bloc; when I looked at the money and saw that it was too much, I rejected it, yet I\u2019m corrupt, I was offered ministerial appointments twice, I rejected it, yet I\u2019m corrupt because whatever I am, I don\u2019t want anybody to say I made it through corruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have given lectures against corruption with my papers in many universities globally. For someone to allege that I have won my cases through corruption, it\u2019s an attempt to defame me. That was why I rejected all appeals earlier made to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when I heard that Ooni was coming, I knew I was in a fix today. There is nothing I\u2019m going to gain from his imprisonment and there\u2019s nothing I want from the so-called damages. I am not in quest of more wealth; I\u2019m rather concerned about managing the one I have already. Dele Farotimi is hereby forgiven. On this occasion, I say yes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He said he declined numerous plum and juicy government appointments and positions because he didn&#8217;t want anyone to accuse him of corruptly enriching himself. 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