The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural and socio-political group, Afenifere, has urged Nigerians to allow the judicial system to pretty adjudicate the legal defamation prices filed in opposition to a authorized practitioner, Dele Farotimi, by the Nigeria Police Power (NPF).

Naija Information studies that these prices arose from a grievance submitted to the Ekiti Police Command by Chief Afe Babalola, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and revered elder statesman, who claims that the content material of the 104-page e book titled ‘Nigeria and its Prison Justice,’ authored by Farotimi, has defamed him.

Recall that the writer, Farotimi, was apprehended in Lagos final week and subsequently transported to Ekiti.

The complainant, Afe Babalola, who resides in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, contends that the e book printed by Farotimi, which has gained vital consideration globally, is accessible in Ekiti State, thereby harming his fame.

Farotimi, a widely known Nigerian activist, was offered earlier than a Justice of the Peace Courtroom in Ado Ekiti on Monday.

The presiding choose, Justice of the Peace Abayomi Adeosun, denied his request for bail and ordered his detention in jail till December 10.

A phase of the Nigerian populace has organized plans for a large-scale protest in Lagos State, the Federal Capital Territory, and Ekiti State on December 10, advocating for his instant launch.

Nevertheless, in accordance with the Nationwide Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Comrade Jare Ajayi, “the authorized system offers a chance for events in a dispute to show their circumstances.”

Afenifere firmly asserted that the pursuits of each events, in addition to these of most people, “should be safeguarded and justice administered impartially.”

Ajayi, in his assertion, emphasised that “the court docket is uniquely positioned to determine how these pursuits will be protected and to ensure that the prosecution is carried out in a way that extra successfully upholds the rules of justice.”

Afenifere urged all concerned events to chorus from making statements or taking actions that might disrupt public order whereas additionally calling upon the federal government to make sure strict adherence to the rule of regulation.

Afenifere maintained that the suitable venue for figuring out the infringement of rights and the style of redress is the court docket of regulation, as established by the Nigerian structure.

“We enjoin all events to conduct themselves in whole submission to and respect for the rule of regulation,” the spokesman added.