₦airaland Forum

The Department of State Services (DSS) has directed its legal counsel to seek an adjournment of the alleged cyber-bullying case against African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, until after the 2027 presidential election.

The decision followed a meeting between the DSS Director-General, Tosin Ajayi, senior counsel Akinlolu Kehinde, SAN, and officials of the agency’s Legal Directorate on August 20.

According to a source familiar with the matter, the meeting considered putting the case on hold to allow Sowore to participate fully in the 2027 presidential election without the pending court proceedings becoming an impediment to his campaign.

Presidential and National Assembly elections are scheduled for January 16, 2027, while the campaign period has already commenced.

The DSS had instituted the case following social media posts allegedly made by Sowore on August 25, 2025, in which he referred to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a “criminal.”

The agency subsequently gave Sowore seven days to remove the posts. After he declined, the DSS approached the Federal High Court in Abuja on September 16, 2025, seeking a judicial determination on whether such a description constituted cyber-bullying.

The service said the case was also intended to obtain judicial interpretation on whether it was lawful for anyone to describe the President or another individual as a criminal without a court conviction.

The DSS had earlier written to Meta, the parent company of Facebook, arguing that its statutory responsibility to protect the President extended beyond physical threats to psychological attacks.

The case was later amended, with the number of counts reduced from five to two and the social media companies initially joined as defendants removed from the proceedings. Sowore subsequently pleaded not guilty and was granted bail.

A source close to the DSS counsel said the agency considered it fair to pause the proceedings following the commencement of presidential campaigns, allowing Sowore to exercise his constitutional right to contest the election without hindrance.

The source added that since the case had already been before the court for nearly a year, delaying it for a few additional months would not make a significant difference.

The DSS is expected to formally communicate its position to the Federal High Court when the court resumes normal sittings on September 14, 2026, following its annual judicial vacation.

The proposed adjournment would effectively keep the case on hold until after the 2027 presidential election, allowing Sowore to concentrate on his campaign during the electoral period.

Thedon22:
Everything under Tinubu shows he is a civilized Democrat. He does not stop dss from doing their work professionally. They don't want to be seen as arresting and prosecuting an opposition candidate for a civil case. Tinubu keeps encouraging world standards. The only opposition politician in dss facility, El Rufai, is facing criminal charges of tapping the phones of the NSA. Even if Atiku admits that he would be arrested and detained indefinitely.

Bigkoko:
Even DSS go chop watery beans for Kuje after 2027 elections .

Those criminals in Aso Rock giving them orders to stifle rights of Nigerian will join them in Kuje

PHIPEX:
Now Sowore has to dance more, attack Obi more and show more working, otherwise...

MEGAWATCH:
Tinubu is the owner of DSS and EFCC for now...


Whatever he likes is what will happen.


Funny thing is that EFCC was an organization established by the PDP government and Tinubu was always accusing them of witch hunting opposition parties when he was not in government.

Tinubu and APC are all hypocrites.


🥸🥸🥸

Nadingo:
Two people I will never allow myself join issues with, are Sowore and VDM. They are relentless fighters. Moreover, this particular case was already dead on arrival. It ended up emboldening Sowore to call Balabluu worse names.

Kingosytex:
Sowore don choke them for neck, them no fit swallow am, them no fit still spit am out.

Kingosytex:
Sowore don choke them for neck, them no fit swallow am, them no fit still spit am out.

favor914:
It was already dead on arrival, but yet when Kenneth Okonkwo blasted Gringory Obi, your Oga hurriedly took him to court to press for damages also .

favor914:
A very bitter Obidient, Sorry 😐.

Ofunaofu:
https://applesbite.com/dss-moves-to-halt-sowores-cybercrime-case-until-after-2027-election/