Browsing: Afe Babalola

Ask for Aare Afe Babalola (SAN) from anybody in the street in Ekiti, Ibadan, Enugu, Kano, Abuja or Port Harcourt, the ready answer will come in torrents: Afe Babalola is a distinguished legal luminary, Afe Babalola is an Ekiti man. Afe Babalola is a self-made man. Afe Babalola is the Aare Bamofin of Yoruba land. Afe Babalola is a philanthropist. Afe Babalola is Obasanjo’s legal adviser. Afe Babalola is one of the prominent founders of Ekiti state. Yes, these are factual descriptions of who Afe Babalola is. But those descriptions are not and cannot be the actual definition of who Afe Babalola is.

From the heavy presence of Okada Riders, youth and women leaders who jam-packed the premises of Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital that Friday night with many of them pulling their shirts to donate blood while I was in surgery to the powerful presence of delegation of the Ewi of Ado Ekiti and Oluyin of Iyin Ekiti by Saturday morning, followed by the personal visit of our referred Aare Afe Babalola, who was accompanied by his wife and principal functionaries of Afe Babalola University. 

He made the request in a petition he addressed to the Chairman of ICPC, Ekpo Nta, detailing how the former solicitor-general allegedly abused his office and hijacked the briefs he handled for the family of Eletu in the Supreme Court while his professional fees had not been paid.

Elder statesmen at the meeting were the convener, Afe Babalola; Chief Deji Fasuan; Dr. Kunle Olajide; a former Minister of Information, Chief Ayo Ogunlade; and the Vice Chancellor of ABUAD, Prof. Michael Ajisafe, Four of the seven lawmakers elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, led by the factional Speaker, Hon. Dele Olugbemi, attended the meeting