Court dismisses Sowore's bid to compel DSS DG to testify in trial

The statesmanlike campaigner of the African Action Congress, AAC, successful the 2027 wide election, Omoyele Sowore, has mislaid his bid to compel the Director General of the Department of State Services, DSS, Tosin Ajayi, to personally look successful tribunal arsenic a witnesser successful his trial.

Sowore is being prosecuted for allegedly cyberbullying President Bola Tinubu.

Justice Mohammed Garba Umar of the Abuja Federal High Court, successful a ruling connected Monday, dismissed Sowore's application.

Justice Umar delivered the ruling connected arguments for and against the subpoena issued to the DSS Director General astatine the petition of the defence.

Sowore, done his lawyer, Adeyinka Olumide Fusika, SAN, had sought an bid of the Federal High Court to compel the DG’s quality to attest connected authoritative activities of the DSS relating to the cyberbullying lawsuit instituted against him.

However, the DSS, represented by Akinlolu Thomas Kehinde, SAN, opposed the move, arguing that different authoritative of the bureau could attest connected the DG's behalf.

The lawyer argued that it was absurd for Sowore to beryllium insisting connected the DSS DG's quality successful tribunal successful an enactment that was purely authoritative and not personal.

He argued that since the DSS has enactment Sowore connected trial, immoderate authoritative delegated by the enactment tin attest for the establishment.

In his ruling, Justice Umar held that the subpoena acrophobic an o...