Lawyer da kare hakkin dan Adam, Dele Farotimi, wanda aka kama shi saboda zargin difamaci wani Senior Advocate of Nigeria da dan kasuwa, Afe Babalola, an yarda masa tashi dariya da naira milioni 50 a ranar Litinin.
Hukumar shari’a ta tarayya ta yanke hukuncin tashi dariya a lokacin da tawagar shari’a ta Farotimi ta yi hujja a ganin a sallame shi har zuwa lokacin da zai ci gaba da shari’a.
Wata kungiya a ƙarƙashin sunan Justice for Afe Babalola Legacy (JABL) ta shirya taron manema labarai a Ado Ekiti, wanda shugaban yada labarai na kungiyar, Rotimi Opeyeoluwa, ya shugabanci. Kungiyar ta bayyana cewa suna kan gaba wajen kare al’adun Afe Babalola wanda sun ce Farotimi ya lalata sunansa da kiran shi da zargin lalata shari’a ta Najeriya.
Opeyeoluwa ya ce ya yi matukar saduwa da kuma bakin ciki cewa Babalola, wanda ya gina sunansa a zinariya tsawon shekaru da yawa, an lalata sunansa a irin yadda haka.
High Chief Mike Osaloni, Olotin na Ado Ekiti wanda kuma shi ne shugaban gidan Afe Babalola, ya ce gidan ya yi shirin ya yi fafutuka da kowa wanda zai yi kokarin lalata sunan Afe.
Dan takarar shugaban kasa na jam’iyyar Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, ya zo Ado Ekiti a ranar Litinin ya nemi afuwa daga Babalola a madadin Farotimi. Obi ya tashi zuwa Jami’ar Afe Babalola, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD) ya hadu da Babalola, sannan ya tashi zuwa tsare Farotimi a tsarewar Ado Ekiti inda ake tsare shi.
