Embattled Nigerian lawyer and activist, Dele Farotimi has said that there are still four pending cases filed against him in different courts by Afe Babalola’s chamber.
The lawyer said that despite reports that Babalola has withdrawn the case of character defamation against him over his recent book, he was only determined to correct the systemic rot in the judicial system.
He stated that because of the pending suits, he is restrained on speaking about the matter which is still in court.
His words, “So because of the pendency of those suits, I am still constrained about speaking to certain aspects of the books.
“But there are questions you have asked that I am able to either answer or clarify. The first of them is the fact that we have come to label the book ‘notorious’. Persons would prefer to label the book notorious but I have laboured to make clear on numerous occasions, I did not sit down in a beer parlour, I was not in the officers’ mess, I was not gossiping, it was not idle, cheap talk. I wrote a book,” Farotimi said.
He also noted that 90 per cent of Nigerians who have condemned his book on the rot in the nation’s judiciary have not read its content
He said, “90 per cent of the persons criticizing me for whatever they believe my tactics should have been in writing the book have not read the book.”
“The facts of my allegations are right there in the book. If Nigerians would stop being philistinic and illiterate, certificated morons, if they would care to read, there would be no argument as to the proof of what I had written,” he added.