Another lawyer from Afe Babalola’s law firm has filed a N600 million libel suit against Dele Farotimi.
Ola Faro filed the suit at the Rivers State High Court in Port Harcourt on 11 December, alleging that Mr Farotimi defamed him in his controversial book, ‘Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System’.
The suit comes on the heel of an earlier one regarding the content of the book filed at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja by Kehinde Ogunwumiju, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and managing partner at Afe Babalola & Co.
Mr Ogunwumiju obtained on Wednesday an interim order for the seizure of the physical copies of the book ahead of further hearing in the case, which seeks N500 million in damages against Mr Farotimi.
Aside from the civil cases, the police are prosecuting Mr Farotimi on charges of criminal defamation at a chief magistrate’s court and cybercrime at the Federal High Court, both in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State.
The criminal cases were…