Sowore Withdraws Plan To Call DSS Boss As Witness In Tinubu Defamation Trial

Online publisher and African Action Congress presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has withdrawn his plan to call the Director-General of the Department of State Services, Adeola Ajayi, as a witness in his ongoing trial.

Sowore told the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday that the evidence he wanted from the DSS boss could be provided by another official of the agency.

The Attorney-General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi, who led the prosecution for the first time, opposed the subpoena issued to the DSS Director-General, saying the document in question was not written by him.

Fagbemi argued that the DSS letter asking Sowore to remove social media posts describing President Bola Tinubu as a criminal had already been admitted in court.

Justice Muhammed Umar later adjourned the case until August 3 for continuation of the defence in the alleged criminal defamation trial.