The Department of State Services (DSS) has taken legal action against Omoyele Sowore, a former presidential candidate, along with social media companies X Corp and Meta Inc., filing a five-count charge over posts criticizing President Bola Tinubu.
The suit was filed before a Federal High Court in Abuja after Sowore refused to take down the said posts.
The charges were filed on behalf of the DSS and the Federal Government by M.B. Abubakar, Director of Public Prosecutions at the Federal Ministry of Justice, and four other counsel to the DSS – M.E. Ernest, U.B. Bulla, Dr. C.S. Eze, and E.G. Orubor.
There were media reports about how the agency initially “wrote to X, demanding that the account of Sowore should be deactivated over some posts he made about the president.”
The DSS issued Sowore an ultimatum to remove the posts, which it described as defamatory. In response, Sowore pledged to appear in court to face the matter.
“The State Security Service, alias @OfficialDSSNG today filed a 5-count charge at the Federal High Court in Abuja against ‘@X’ (formerly @Twitter), @facebook , and myself. They claimed that because I called @officialABAT a criminal, I have somehow committed a set of “novel” offences they invented and spread across five counts.”
“It’s hard to believe there’s anyone sensible left in these offices that should be making Nigeria work. Regardless, I will be present whenever this case is assigned for trial. #RevolutionNow,” he posted on his handle.
