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Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by naptu2(op): 1:50pm On Dec 10, 2024

"False & Malicious": Afe Babalola Law Firm Partner, Ogunwumiju SAN, Sues Farotimi For ₦500M Over Alleged Libel In Book

By Unini Chioma
December 10, 2024

Senior Advocate of Nigeria Kehinde Ogunwumiju has filed a N500 million lawsuit against lawyer and author Dele Farotimi over allegations of judicial corruption made in Farotimi’s book “Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System.”

According to court papers obtained by this newspaper, Kehinde Ogunwumiju, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and managing partner at Afe Babalola & Co, is suing lawyer and author Dele Farotimi for ₦500 million. The suit no: FCT/HC/5372/2024 , filed at the High Court of the FCT in Abuja, accuses Farotimi of making “false, mischievous and defamatory” statements in his book “Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System.”

Ogunwumiju, who was conferred with the rank of SAN in 2017 and the national honour of OFR in 2023, claims excerpts from Farotimi’s book depicted him and his law firm as unethical lawyers who bribe judges and manipulate the judicial system. The suit alleges the book, published in 2024, accuses Afe Babalola & Co of “compromising the integrity of the Supreme Court,” scheming with “crooked lawyers and incompetent justices,” and “doctoring” a Supreme Court judgment.

Beyond the monetary damages, Ogunwumiju is asking the court for an order compelling Farotimi to apologize in two national newspapers and halt further sales of the book, which is available in Nigeria and internationally on online platforms like Amazon. The senior lawyer says the book’s “false” claims have cost his firm clients and damaged his professional reputation.

“The words complained of are not only false, but also malicious, reckless and defamatory,” the court filings state. Ogunwumiju denies any wrongdoing and maintains he has never been involved in judicial corruption in his nearly two-decade legal career, which has included representing high-profile government and corporate clients.

Described in the suit as “one of the most distinguished legal luminaries of his generation,” Ogunwumiju is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association executive council, a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators UK, and has headed Afe Babalola’s Abuja office since 2012.

Farotimi, the founding partner of law firm DF Legal in Lagos, reiterated some of the book’s claims during a Channels TV interview in August, according to the suit. He could not be reached immediately for comment as he is appearing in court today in Ekiti.

A date for hearing the suit has not yet been scheduled.

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Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by naptu2(op): 1:51pm On Dec 10, 2024

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Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by adeoyekay(m): 1:52pm On Dec 10, 2024

Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by Ishilove: 1:59pm On Dec 10, 2024

Dele fvcked around. Now, he is finding out grin

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Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by Dialpad: 2:02pm On Dec 10, 2024

They will teach this guy a lesson he will never forget.

All the guys suing him are from Ekiti?

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Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by BlueStripper: 2:02pm On Dec 10, 2024

EVERYONE WANTS TO SUE DELE

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Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by DrTee1(m): 2:02pm On Dec 10, 2024*

The challenge here is that I sincerely do hope that Mr Farotimi has hard evidence for his claims.

If he doesn't have inalienable HARD EVIDENCE which can be presented in COURT, he may be really embarrassed with that way this goes.

I hope he does have evidence.

I have problems with a few wrong remarks that I have heard Mr Farotimi make on TV in the past, but I am often sympathetic to the iconoclastic underdog in social engineering, and I wish Nigeria the very best as we go ahead.

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Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by Believeintruth: 2:02pm On Dec 10, 2024

Ishilove:
Dele fvcked around. Now, he is finding out

how? they have opened a can of worms that will consume them.

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Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by CooldipoMPS: 2:03pm On Dec 10, 2024

Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by EmperorCaesar(m): 2:03pm On Dec 10, 2024

Dele is on a long thing like Kokomaster

You sabi defame people, con dey answer question na

Headless mobs go dey Twitter dey ginger am, but na only am dey Dele dey face hin own troubles

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Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by bestman09(m): 2:03pm On Dec 10, 2024*

This is the way to go, not using the police to criminalize a civil suit.

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Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by Maxymilliano(m): 2:03pm On Dec 10, 2024

Nothing spoil

Farotimi retriated during the interview on Channels that anyone not comfortable with the revelations contain in his book should go to court.

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Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by Fiscus105(m): 2:03pm On Dec 10, 2024*

V D M has since disappeared from cyber space

If Dele cannot proof his case, they should make him a deterrent for others, because the way people saying negative things about others, with no single exhibits to proof the allegations, needs to be reduced.

ANYONE THAT WANTS TO EXPOSE ROT IN THE SYSTEM, LET HIM GO THE WAY OF SOYOMBO. (investigative journalism)

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Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by Edygrin(m): 2:03pm On Dec 10, 2024

You can criticize people, you can even insult them and their family but you see accusing people of something you don't even have evidence of, don't do it.

People use decades to build their name, brand and image, and you want to use a pen and paper to tarnish it by defaming them?

Whatever you see, Take it.

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Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by Skoonheid(f): 2:04pm On Dec 10, 2024

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by yoruboid: 2:04pm On Dec 10, 2024

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Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by yesloaded: 2:04pm On Dec 10, 2024

Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by Tflex01: 2:04pm On Dec 10, 2024

Some persons really think social media noise will help Dele lmao

He can come back to enjoy the $$$ his book fetched him on Amazon when he's out of prison around age 70.

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Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by Nobody: 2:04pm On Dec 10, 2024

Everything will be exposed

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Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by PDPdestroyer(m): 2:05pm On Dec 10, 2024*

His bestseller on Amazon will pay this miserly fine 20 times over with change to spare. We Obidients are going to make Dele rich through this travail, not minding most us have not had a decent meal in a long time grin

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Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by ERockson: 2:05pm On Dec 10, 2024

Dele Farotimi messed up honestly. I don't think he will be able to finish this battle for the next 3 years because the Supreme Court/Judiciary has every reason to sue him or sanction him like every other individual mentioned or blackmailed in his book. Eventually, the judiciary he rubbished will have to be the institution to adjudicate his matter. What a foolish man!

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Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by lanre4411(m): 2:06pm On Dec 10, 2024

Believeintruth:
how? they have opened a can of worms that will consume them.

this is just the beginning he mentioned a lot of legal icons in that book and each one of them are coming out one by one for him , Dele farotimi might learn in a hard way

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Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by advocatejare(m): 2:06pm On Dec 10, 2024

They will claim all the dollars Farotimi will get from selling that book

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Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by thunder74(m): 2:06pm On Dec 10, 2024

Yoruba bọ̀ "Ènìyàn méjì kií pàdánù irọ́, tí ẹnì ti wọn ba n parọ́ fún kò bá mọ̀, ẹni tó ń parọ́ mọ̀ pé irọ́ lòun ń pa. (Two persons can not be unaware of an existence of a lie, if the person they lie to does not know, the lier will definitely know that what he is saying is a lie).

On the book, Afe and/or Dele knows the truth. And you the defenders of either parties know that most of the things Dele alleged in his book are actually correct and the reality of our judiciary except that you lack the courage to call a spade a spade.

We only murmur in our private spaces and hoping that thing will suddenly change miraculously.

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Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by Slurity(m): 2:06pm On Dec 10, 2024

Dialpad:
They will teach this guy a lesson he will never forget.

All the guys suing him are from Ekiti?

he himself is from Ekiti. Farotimi is Ekiti dialet in pronunciation . I am just joking. but FAROTIMI SURELY HAS ITS SOURCE FROM EKITI DIALET.

Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by Obakoolex(m): 2:07pm On Dec 10, 2024

Another one.....dj kaleed voice undecided

Anything you do as a Nigerian citizen, always make sure you don't have Obidients support....E get why grin

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Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by Tflex01: 2:08pm On Dec 10, 2024

tiswell:
Yolobahs love themselves in the mud

That is why they won't allow one bitter loser to rubbish the work of a 97 years old sage with illustrious career that span over 60 years.

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Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by SmartPolician: 2:09pm On Dec 10, 2024*

Where did he expect Dele to get 500m from? BTW, I hope Dele can prove that these names he mentioned were really culpable. If not, he will be in trouble for a very long time.

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Re: Kehinde Ogunwumiju Sues Dele Farotimi For ₦500M by joseph1832(m): 2:10pm On Dec 10, 2024

Ishilove:
Dele fvcked around Now, he is finding out

I thought that was my job. grin

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