SSS sues Sowore, X, Facebook over posts calling Bola Tinubu criminal
The State Security Service has filed a five-count criminal charge at the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court in against activist and publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore alongside X and Facebook.
The secret is suing over Mr Sowore’s social media posts describing President Bola Tinubu as a “criminal”.
The charge sheet, dated September 16, 2025, seen by Peoples Gazette on Tuesday, alleged that Mr Sowore sharing false information intended to cause a breakdown of law and order, incite disaffection against Mr Tinubu and defame the president’s “personality and reputation”.
The lawsuit also accused Mr Sowore of sharing posts calculated to cause “public fear and disturbance”.
The charges were filed and signed by M.B. Abubakar, Director of Public Prosecutions at the Federal Ministry of Justice, alongside ME Ernest, U.B. Bulla, C.S. Eze (PhD), and E.G. Orubor (counsel to the prosecution from the SSS).
However, Mr Sowore dismissed the charges as “novel offences” invented by the SSS to silence dissent.
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