Legal luminary and founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola has revealed that he rejected offer of an oil bloc and ministerial appointment twice.
Babalola said this on Sunday when he received Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi and other top traditional rulers who had come to appeal to him to withdraw the criminal defamation suit he filed against lawyer and activist, Dele Farotimi.
Afe Babalola who was rejecting allegation that he is corrupt as insinuated by Dele Farotimi said, “I rejected an oil block and defended the EFCC law and also rejected ministerial nominees twice, wondering why anyone would just wake up and try to rubbish all he had laboured for.
But Afe Babalola added that he has no choice but to obey the appeal of the Ooni and other traditional rulers to obey appeal of the traditional rulers to withdraw the suit against Farotimi.
Babalola had dragged Farotimi to court over claims contained in his book titled “Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System” where he alleged that the legal luminary corrupted the Judiciary
