Update - The bail application for the human rights activist, Dele Farotimi, in the suit filed by the Inspector General of Police, Mr Kayode Egbetokun, against him over alleged cybercrime was denied by the presiding judge, Abayomi Adeosun on Tuesday.
Farotimi was arraigned before the magistrate court in Ado-Ekiti for allegedly defaming the founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Afe Babalola.
At the hearing on Tuesday, the decision on the bail application was postponed to December 20 by the presiding magistrate, after the police counsel, Samson Osobu, argued that the bail application submitted by the defendant was incomplete and not properly filed.
This ruling, however, contradicts the decision of the Federal High Court in Ado-Ekiti, which granted Farotimi bail on Monday.
The PUNCH reports that Farotimi was arrested in Lagos by the police and transported to Ekiti, where he appeared before the magistrate court on Wednesday.
He was charged with defamation stemming from statements in his book, ‘Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System’ where he alleged that Babalola had compromised the Supreme Court.
In his ruling, the Chief Magistrates Court in the Ado Ekiti Division ordered that Farotimi be remanded at the state’s correctional centre.
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