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*Fixes May 19 to open defence

Justice Mohammed Garba Umar of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday dismissed the no-case submission made by politician-activist Omoyele Sowore in the charge of cyberbullying President Bola Tinubu brought against him by the Department of the State Services (DSS).

The Court upheld DSS' charges against Sowore for allegedly calling President Bola Ahmed Tinubu a "criminal" in his social media handles. The judge fixed May 19 for Sowore to enter his defence in the charges against him.

Sowore had filed the no-case submission and prayed the court to discharge and acquit him of the 2-count charge.

In the long ruling, Justice Umar punctured Sowore's arguments that the DSS provided only one witness and that the victim, President Bola Tinubu, wasn't invited to testify. He held that the DSS successfully linked Sowore to the alleged crime and that the defendant did not deny posting the offensive messages online.
The judge further ruled that the Supreme Court has long established that any evidence, no matter how small, that links a defendant to an alleged crime is sufficient to establish a prima facie case against the defendant to warrant his defence in the allegations against him.

Shortly after the ruling, counsel to the DSS, Akinlolu Kehinde, SAN, told the court that he was ready to proceed with the trial. However, Sowore's counsel, Marshall Abubakar, rose to appeal to the judge that his client has something important to tell the court. Even though counsel to the DSS protested the move, insisting that the rule was that a defendant may be represented in court by counsel or by himself, not both, the judge allowed Sowore to use the microphone to address the court.
He began by openly accusing the Judge of bias and asked the judge to recuse himself, as he wasn't sure of getting justice in his court.

He alleged that the judge was in cahoots with the federal government to convict him at all costs so as to prevent him from contesting the 2027 general election.
His counsel, Abubakar, echoed the same sentiment, asking the Judge to return the case file to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court for reassignment to another judge.

The DSS lawyer, Akinlolu Kehinde SAN, who had earlier asked the Judge not to grant audience to Sowore but his counsel on record, prayed that the recusal application be discarded.

In a brief ruling, Justice Umar ordered Sowore to file a formal application for recusal and state his grievances.

He thereafter fixed May 19 for the defendant to open his defense.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.channelstv.com/2026/05/08/alleged-cyberbullying-court-dismisses-sowores-no-case-submission/amp/

Good. The case should be pursued to the end and an example made of Sowore.

Too much misbehaviour in Nigeria by the well-heeled, setting bad example to impressionable Nigerians, because they feel they are above the law.

Sowore called our President a criminal then let him prove that precisely or face the consequences of defaming the character and name of PBAT.

Like Igboho, like Sowore,
One day we will know why Sowore abandoned his family in the U.S.A. to sit in Nigeria.

Kanwulia:
Like Igboho, like Sowore,
One day we will know why Sowore abandoned his family in the U.S.A. to sit in Nigeria.

Lol. Same reason Kanu left his family, comfortably ensconced in the orderly UK, to begin causing problems and anarchy for Nigeria and Nigerians.

WizardOfNG:
Lol. Same reason Kanu left his family, comfortably ensconced in the orderly UK, to begin causing problems and anarchy for Nigeria and Nigerians.

Which direction is better? Did Kanu’s family not move with him? Is his wife not still in the U.K.?

Wetin Sowore dey do for Nigeria?😆
See in belle don dey big doing three-some parties all over Nigeria? Fake VDM!

Kanwulia:
Which direction is better? Did Kanu’s family not move with him? Is his wife not still in the U.K.?

Wetin Sowore dey do for Nigeria?😆
See in belle don dey big doing three-some parties all over Nigeria? Fake VDM!

You are confusing yourself. I have no time for Sowore I believe is an anarchist and fifth columnist 💯%. I would love for him to be legally convicted and jailed.

The likes of Sowore and Kanu should be dealt with severely and never indulged because they are both lawless and anarchic characters.

WizardOfNG:
You are confusing yourself. I have no time for Sowore I believe is an anarchist and fifth columnist 💯%.

The likes of Sowore and Kanu should be dealt with severely and never indulged because they are both lawless and anarchic characters.

Please! Leave MNK out of your bigoted psyche. EVERYTHING MNK HAS SAID IS HAPPENING TODAY.

What is Sowore contributing but noise and distraction?

Kanwulia:
Please! Leave MNK out of your bigoted psyche. EVERYTHING MNK HAS SAID IS HAPPENING TODAY.

What is Sowore contributing but noise and distraction?

I agree with your conclusion about Sowore. Yet he is precisely same as Kanu. It is you guilty of hosting a "bigoted psyche" and that is why Kanu is a "truth-telling" Saint in your eyes rather than the dangerous anarchist and criminal he is .

That is the difference between me and you and our ethnic groups essentially.

I am advocating Sowore be dealt with for the greater good of society while you are preaching for Kanu to be given the keys to the manor so he can do as he pleases simply because he is your kinsman.

WizardOfNG:
I agree with your conclusion about Sowore. Yet he is precisely same as Kanu. It is you guilty of hosting a "bigoted psyche" and that is why Kanu is a "truth-telling" Saint in your eyes rather than the dangerous anarchist and criminal he is .

That is the difference between me and you and our ethnic groups essentially.

I am advocating Sowore be dealt with for the greater good of society while you are preaching for Kanu to be given the keys to the manor so he can do as he pleases simply because he is your kinsman.

Like I stated earlier, MKN’s prophecies have come to pass. Sowore can NEVER be in the same class as MNK.

Kanwulia:
Like Igboho, like Sowore,
One day we will know why Sowore abandoned his family in the U.S.A. to sit in Nigeria.

That deadbeat dad Sowore is most likely stuck in Nigeria because he is trying to duck away from paying child support to his ugly baby-mama and welfare ghetto concubine whose other job is selling crack on the streets in the crime-ridden inner city of Atlanta.

Kanwulia:
Like I stated earlier, MKN’s prophecies have come to pass. Sowore can NEVER be in the same class as MNK.

So what? I can give it to Kanu that he called some things right but that does not make him a Phrophet because some of us, including myself, made same calls. It is not Rocket Science.

Of course I agree Nigeria's main ethnic groups should forge different and independent socio-economic lives in their geographic regions.

'One Nigeria' is a horrid scam , only the elite and politicians benefit from massively, that is behind all the problems of Nigeria and will ensure we never optimally utilise our god-given endorsement to become a developed nation.

Yet we have a constitution that forbids secession and as a Yoruba, given we prefer working smarter than harder with you lot interpreting that to be "cowardice", I believe balkanisation of Nigeria is off the table unless we gain constitutional amendment to allow it.

That is unlikely to happen because those parasitically attached to one Nigeria will never vote such through their agents in our legislative arm.

Critical-thinking and pragmatic Nigerians, who understands life is about results not ego, will know regional autonomy is the way forward. That is what I support also.


You guys are the ones who indulged Kanu with his redundant and outlawed pursuit of secession when you know there is only ever going to be one outcome given the crystal clear provisions of the Nigerian constitution.

Igboho will never get anywhere with Yorubas trying what Kanu made many of you guys embrace. That's the truth and an illustration of how fundamentally different Yorubas and Igbos are.

If you guys were like Yorubas, who can and will always reign in aberrant behaviour from their own then Kanu would have been disavowed of the extremism he believes is the only way to achieve his objectives. Meaning he could have become a pivotally important Igbo leader today.

His fate is on you lot. Stop crying today about Kanu when you all had a duty to guide him towards the right path yet indulged and followed his aberrant ways

WizardOfNG:
So what? I can give it to Kanu that he called some things right but that does not make him a Phrophet because some of us, including myself, made same calls. It is not Rocket Science.

Of course I agree Nigeria's main ethnic groups should forge different and independent socio-economic lives in their geographic regions.

'One Nigeria' is a horrid scam , only the elite and politicians benefit from massively, that is behind all the problems of Nigeria and will ensure we never optimally utilise our god-given endorsement to become a developed nation.

Yet we have a constitution that forbids secession and as a Yoruba, given we prefer working smarter than harder with you lot interpreting that to be "cowardice", I believe balkanisation of Nigeria is off the table unless we gain constitutional amendment to allow it.

That is unlikely to happen because those parasitically attached to one Nigeria will never vote such through their agents in our legislative arm.

Critical-thinking and pragmatic Nigerians, who understands life is about results not ego, will know regional autonomy is the way forward. That is what I support also.


You guys are the ones who indulged Kanu with his redundant and outlawed pursuit of secession when you know there is only ever going to be one outcome given the crystal clear provisions of the Nigerian constitution.

Igboho will never get anywhere with Yorubas trying what Kanu made many of you guys embrace. That's the truth and an illustration of how fundamentally different Yorubas and Igbos are.

If you guys were like Yorubas, who can and will always reign in aberrant behaviour from their own then Kanu would have been disavowed of the extremism he believes is the only way to achieve his objectives. Meaning he could have become a pivotally important Igbo leader today.

His fate is on you lot. Stop crying today about Kanu when you all had a duty to guide him towards the right path yet indulged and followed his aberrant ways

Your opinion.
The same fate MNK is suffering is the safe fate WE are suffering. Injustice and suffering all over Nigeria and abroad!

Let is see how long YOU WILL CLAIM EXEMPTION.

Jakumo:
That deadbeat dad Sowore is most likely stuck in Nigeria because he is trying to duck away from paying child support to his ugly baby-mama and welfare ghetto concubine whose other job is selling crack on the streets in the crime-ridden inner city of Atlanta.

Lol. You may be correct Jakumo. No negro into fake life and deception more than Nigerian men.

Sowore and his wife may have even been long divorced/seperate and just co-parenting, while he maintains a beautiful young shorty in Nigeria, yet pretends to the world he is a "responsible" and "happily married family man".

I personally know so many Nigerian egbons currently engaged in that lifestyle. No be say dem tell me.

Dem get UK, Canada and US wife, the mother of their kids, while parading fine young Naija wife up and down Lagos and Abuja.

Sowore is a very dodgy bloke. So many things don't add up with that dude.

Kanwulia:
Your opinion.
The same fate MNK is suffering is the safe fate WE are suffering. Injustice and suffering all over Nigeria and abroad!

Let is see how long YOU WILL CLAIM EXEMPTION.

Yorubas aren't fools. We know whats up. We just don't believe in redundant dramatic pontifications you lot historically always engage in to then still fail in the end.

Our Govenors did what is shown below your leaders will never ever have the balls to do meaning we know where Nigeria is heading and how our own future must shape out.

We are ready to chase that future politically, which is always the way to achieve results in Nigeria, and not through Sunday Igboho.

We aren't going to escape "injustice" the way Kanu was going about it you people then decided to follow him blindly to prosecute.

Constitution done shenk us us per outright balkanisation of Nigeria into seperate nations.

We must work smart to gain what is shown below. If you guys aren't ready to work for regional autonomy, essentially same as having Biafra in all but name, and remain dedicated to following the preaching and methods of Kanu, then own the consequences and don't cry, as you are doing today, when the worst happens.

You can't fight Government and constitution to emerge winners. Not possible. Especially not with the cowardly leaders you lot have incapable of what is shown below.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/swest-govs-propose-six-regions-demand-lg-autonomy-resource-control/%3famp

Jakumo:
If Sowore has a hot young Nigerian woman to service, he deserves a chieftaincy title because Nigerian women in their early twenties are shockingly sexy, fit, toned, and gorgeous, in sharp contrast to those lumbering American black women that can be frightening to behold.

One could spend a whole MONTH in any American ghetto, yet see only fat and ugly hippopotamuses, wildebeest and buffalo, yet, in any Nigerian village, a man could suffer whiplash injury to his neck from constantly swiveling to get a better look at the beautiful women that are just everywhere.

So, even if Sowore is an arrogant little prick, at least he has the right idea when it comes to how to apply his prick in Nigeria.

Lol. 100% correct about the bolded. Like women too much and your car will always be at the mechanic from crashing it looking at yansh.

What I love about Nigeria, as someone who has always appreciated beautiful things, is the stupendous variety Nigerian females beauty comes in.

Ghana, South Africa, Gambia, Sudan, Somalia etal. Beautiful women but more rigidity of looks. There is a definitive type.

Walk the streets of Lagos and there is no type. Fair, dark, etc, etc. Nigerians is truly blessed. Our over 400 ethnic group composition is a blessing yet we are not using that as positive and emancipating strenght. I am sure Sowore has a shorty if he is not gay.

You dont even have to be mega rich to have an extremely privileged life in Nigeria. Earn well, be able to offer comfort and most women are automatically in your range.

The likes of Sowore, if he is a connoisseur of female beauty as some of us are, will find Nigeria an incredible play ground.

Trust me bro, most of these guys have incredibly hedonistic lifestyle in Nigeria they do not wish to ever relinquish.

You should ask yourself why Sowore is always in Nigeria and has made it his permanent abode since relocating back several years ago to engage in politics.

Nigga is in Nigeria many months and his wife is in the USA. Where is he getting 'relief' from?

All these niggas know Nigeria is a beautiful country full of beautiful people. It is basically negro "I want to be top Dog" ego making them incapable of working together to make Nigeria work.