Afe Babalola Vs Dele Farotimi: What the Judiciary Has Done To Nigeria

Far more intriguing dimensions have contained to emerge in the Afe Babalola Vs Dele Farotimi controversial case.

One of the latest is from another learned gentleman, who has tried to weigh the issue from the different perspectives of relevance.

Canvassing this position during an appearance on Arise Television, the lawyer, Mr Fred Nzeakor submitted that the Afe Babalola Vs Dele Farotimi case may become a long journey for, not just the two, but the Nigerian judiciary.

“This is because the judiciary has divided Nigerians into two; on one side you have the conservatives who are seemingly sympathetic to Chief Afe Babalola on the ground that they felt the 61 years he has put into legal service is about to be ditched into a mud of infamy.

“On the other side, you have the radicals who are not sympathetic to anybody other than the fact that they want a better Nigeria.

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“They feel anytime is good enough for such a better Nigeria to be birthed and that if this will bring the much-needed sanity in our system especially at the judicial level, so be it”, he stated while speaking an Arise TV

“It is very unfortunate because any way you look at it, it looks like the proverbial tsetse fly that perched on the scrotum.

“Anyhow you touch it, it is dangerous.

“Are you going to allow Chief Afe Babalola’s integrity to be dragged to the mud? No.

“Are you going to allow Nigeria to continue in this infamy of unbridled corruption no”, Nzeakor stated.

Referencing with former British Prime Minister, David Cameron, he said he had once described Nigeria as a fantastically corrupt country.

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“And it worries everybody who wants Nigeria to be sane. We say corruption is the bane of national development in Nigeria, at what point are we going to begin to clean up this corruption>”, he rhetorically queried in the appearance.

Chief Afe Babalola, an educationist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) since 1987, has a public profile of no mean class, even as Dele Farotimi, a human rights activist, has seen his profile soar in the recent on account of what some people consider his forthrightness.