{"id":3945,"date":"2025-01-29T11:24:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T11:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2025-01-29T11:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T11:25:05","slug":"amidst-withdrawal-of-afe-babalola-case-afenifere-appoint-dele-farotimi-organizing-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/01\/29\/amidst-withdrawal-of-afe-babalola-case-afenifere-appoint-dele-farotimi-organizing-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"“Amidst Withdrawal Of Afe Babalola Case, Afenifere Appoint Dele Farotimi Organizing Secretary.”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Pa Ayo Adebanjo-led faction of Afenifere, a prominent Yoruba sociopolitical group, has appointed lawyer and activist Dele Farotimi as its National Organising Secretary.<\/h2>\n

T<\/strong>he\u00a0decision was made at a general meeting held at Adebanjo\u2019s residence in Isanya Ogbo, Ogun State, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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This development was disclosed in a communiqu\u00e9 jointly signed by the Deputy Leader,\u00a0Oba Oladipo Olaitan<\/strong>, and the National Publicity Secretary,\u00a0Prince Justice Faloye<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The statement read: \u201cThe General Meeting considered and approved the appointment of Barrister Dele Farotimi as the National Organising Secretary of the Afenifere.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Farotimi\u2019s new role comes shortly after Aare Afe Babalola, a renowned legal icon, agreed to withdraw a defamation lawsuit against him.<\/p>\n

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The suit stemmed from alleged defamatory remarks in Farotimi\u2019s book, Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice System.<\/p>\n

Farotimi had been arraigned in an Ekiti State High Court in Ado-Ekiti and granted bail for \u20a630 million.<\/p>\n

His legal troubles drew public attention, particularly as they coincided with high-profile interventions by figures like the Ooni of Ife, which ultimately led to Babalola\u2019s decision to withdraw the case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Pa Ayo Adebanjo-led faction of Afenifere, a prominent Yoruba sociopolitical group, has appointed lawyer and activist Dele Farotimi as its National Organising Secretary. The\u00a0decision was made at a general meeting held at Adebanjo\u2019s...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3947,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions\/3947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}