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Dele Farotimi Files Preliminary Objection To Defamation Suit In Ado Ekiti

OsunDailyBy OsunDailyDecember 9, 2024No Comments2 Mins Read
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Lagos-based lawyer and activist, Dele Farotimi, ahead of the hearing of a defamation charge filed against him has submitted a preliminary objection asking the Ado Ekiti Magistrate Court to strike out the suit.

The objection, dated December 9, 2024, was filed by Farotimiโ€™s legal team led by Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika, along with 19 other lawyers.

The defence team includes three other Senior Advocates of Nigeriaโ€”Festus Emiri, Bamidele Ibironke, and Segun Ololadeโ€”supported by 16 additional legal practitioners.

It was brought under Section 36(8) OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, 1999, SECTIONS 4(1) OF THE CRIMINAL LAW OF EKITI STATE, SECTION 77 (10(a), 147 AND 370 OF THE EKITI STATE ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE LAW, 2014) and SECTIONS 25 AND 42 OF THE MAGISTRATES COURTS LAW (N0.5, 2014) OF EKITI STATE.

In the five grounds of the objection, Farotimi contends among other things that the charge before the magistrate court is unknown to law, non-existent and that the magistrate acted without jurisdiction on an incompetent charge.

Specifically, the five grounds of the application are:

(1) that the 16 count charge before the magistrate court refers to alleged offences contrary to and punishable under the โ€œCriminal Code Actโ€.

(2) that the Criminal Code Act was a law applicable by adoption and/or domestication in Ekiti State of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as the Criminal Code Law, Cap. C16. Laws of Ekiti, 2012.

(3) that the Criminal Code Law, Cap. C16, Laws of Ekiti, 2012, has been replaced and expressly repealed by Section 429 (a) of the Criminal Law of Ekiti State, 2021.

(4) that the crime of defamation of Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, OFR, and two of his partners, Olu Daramola, SAN, Olu Faro and the law firm of Afe Babalola & Co., alleged and particularised in all said counts of the Charge, and upon which the Defendant was arraigned and unwittingly ordered detained in prison by the โ€“ Honourable Magistrate, is unknown to and are non-existent in the
Crรญminal Law of Ekiti State, 2021.

(5) In the premise, the Honourable Magistrate acted without jurisdiction when he countenanced the Charge, allowed the arraignment of the Defendant, and ordered his detention in prison upon the said incompetent charge.


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