{"id":144258,"date":"2024-12-29T23:02:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T22:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/im-ready-for-war-dele-farotimi-dares-afe-babalola"},"modified":"2024-12-30T00:11:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T23:11:46","slug":"im-ready-for-war-dele-farotimi-dares-afe-babalola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/im-ready-for-war-dele-farotimi-dares-afe-babalola","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m ready for war\u2019 \u2013 Dele Farotimi dares Afe Babalola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Embattled human rights activist, Dele Farotimi, on Sunday said he is ready to face his ongoing trial.<\/p>\n<p>Farotimi said his battle axes have been sharpened, and his guns primed, ready for war.<\/p>\n<p>Posting on X, the activist lawyer said he\u2019s strong enough to confront principalities and powers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am strong enough to rumble unruffled against principalities and powers, but I am human enough to retain the capacity to shed tears of joy in appreciation of the grace of God, expressed in the concerted efforts of fellow victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy battle axes are newly sharpened, my guns primed, I am ready to war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy resolve was NEVER tested, but I was waiting for next round of the fight to commence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI KNEW that the first round had been lost by those responsible for my imprisonment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, a Chief Magistrate Court in Ado Ekiti had granted Farotimi N30 million bail.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer was arrested for allegedly defaming Afe Babalola, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, ABUAD.<\/p>\n<p>Farotimi was subsequently freed after meeting his bail conditions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Embattled human rights activist, Dele Farotimi, on Sunday said he is ready to face his ongoing trial. Farotimi said his battle axes have been sharpened, and his guns primed, ready for war. Posting on X, the activist lawyer said he\u2019s strong enough to confront principalities and powers. \u201cI am strong enough to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":144256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[9477,14334,254],"class_list":["post-144258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-afe-babalola","tag-dele-farotimi","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018I\u2019m ready for war\u2019 \u2013 Dele Farotimi dares Afe Babalola - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Embattled human rights activist, Dele Farotimi, on Sunday said he is ready to face his ongoing trial. 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