{"id":115504,"date":"2024-12-03T19:38:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T18:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=115504"},"modified":"2024-12-03T19:38:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T18:38:38","slug":"just-in-police-arrest-human-rights-lawyer-farotimi-over-defamation-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/just-in-police-arrest-human-rights-lawyer-farotimi-over-defamation-allegation\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: Police arrest human rights lawyer Farotimi over defamation allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Operatives of the Nigerian Police Force have reportedly arrested human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi, over allegations of defaming the Chief Executive Officer of the United Bank for Africa, Tony Elumelu.<\/p>\n<p>Farotimi\u2019s arrest was revealed by the 2023 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, in a post on his X handle on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sowore disclosed that Elumelu filed a petition accusing Farotimi of defamation.<\/p>\n<p>He called for the lawyer\u2019s immediate release, emphasising that the police should not be used to settle personal disputes.<\/p>\n<p>Sowore wrote, \u201cI just learned that Dele Farotimi was arrested by the Nigerian Police over a petition by Tony Elumelu of UBA Group alleging Dele defamed him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is pertinent that the Nigerian police are notified that the institution cannot continue to be used to settle personal scores, and we, the citizens of Nigeria, would no longer tolerate such a situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, the police at Zone 2 in Lagos are advised to release Barrister Dele Farotimi immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operatives of the Nigerian Police Force have reportedly arrested human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi, over allegations of defaming the Chief Executive Officer of the United Bank for Africa, Tony Elumelu.&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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