BREAKING: FAROTIMI DENIED BAIL, REMAINS IN CUSTODY UNTIL DEC 20 ADJOURNMENT
The magistrate court sitting in Ado-Ekiti has denied the human rights activist, Dele Farotimi, bail.
Farotimi was arraigned in court for alleged defamation of the founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola.
In his ruling, at the resumed sitting on Tuesday, the presiding magistrate, Abayomi Adeosun, adjourned the application of bail to December 20 after the counsel to the police, Samson Osobu, proved that the bail application submitted by the defendant was incompetent and irregular.
Details later…
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