BREAKING: DSS Drags Sowore, X Corp, Meta To Court Over Anti-Tinubu Post

The Department of State Services (DSS) has filed transgression charges against quality rights activistic and erstwhile statesmanlike campaigner of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, astatine the Federal High Court successful Abuja.

Also named successful the suit arsenic the 2nd and 3rd defendants were X Corp (owners of the societal media level X) and Meta Platforms Inc., the genitor institution of Facebook.

According to tribunal documents filed connected September 16, 2025, the DSS, acting done the Federal Ministry of Justice (FMOJ), entered a five-count complaint against Sowore, accusing him of defaming President Bola Tinubu by labelling him a “criminal” successful societal media posts. The alleged statements were made via Sowore’s authoritative X grip and Facebook leafage connected August 25 and 26, 2025, during the president’s authoritative sojourn to Brazil.

The complaint expanse was filed by M.B. Abubakar, Esq., Director of Public Prosecutions astatine the FMOJ, unneurotic with M.E. Ernest, Esq., U.B. Bulla, Esq., C.S. Eze, and E.G. Orubor, Esq. arsenic listed counsel.

The DSS listed the exhibits successful enactment of its lawsuit to include; a printout of Sowore’s tweet connected X,ma printout of his Facebook station and a missive addressed to X Corp.

Other exhibits were a missive addressed to Meta Platforms Inc., and Sowore’s consequent posts responding to those letters.

As of Tuesday, the substance has not yet been assigned to immoderate judge, and nary day has been fixed for Sowore’s arraignment.

The lawsuit represents the latest escalation successful tensions betwixt the activistic and Nigeria’s home quality agency.

LEADERSHIP reports that the DSS had earlier demanded that Sowore retract the posts, people a nationalist apology crossed nationalist media, and contented a connection of retraction connected X. Sowore, however, refused, insisting that his remarks were protected nether state of expression.

The DSS, successful turn, threatened to prosecute the substance “within the ambit of the law,” starring to the existent transgression charges.