Former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has filed two fundamental rights actions at the Federal High Court, Abuja, asking the court to stop Facebook and Twitter from deleting his statement calling Tinubu a criminal.

The actions were filed on his behalf by his counsel, Tope Temokun, yesterday as a response to an earlier action, also filed yesterday, by the DSS.
A statement by the counsel read: “On behalf of our client, Omoyele Sowore, we have filed two fundamental rights actions at the Federal High Court, Abuja, against the State Security Service (SSS), META (owners of Facebook) and X (formerly Twitter).”

The statement noted that the lawsuits were filed to challenge the unconstitutional censorship initiated by the DSS against Sowore’s accounts maintained with Meta and X.

According to the lawsuit, it is about the survival of free speech in Nigeria. That our client’s rights and by extension, the rights of all Nigerians, be fully protected against unlawful censorship.

EARLIER in the day, the State Services had filed a five-count charge against former Sowore, alongside social media platforms X Corp and Meta Incorporation, over posts critical of President Bola Tinubu.

The suit, dated September 16, 2025, was lodged at the Federal High Court in Abuja after Sowore refused to delete certain posts about the President.
The charges were brought on behalf of the DSS and the Federal Government by the Director of Public Prosecutions at the Federal Ministry of Justice, M.B. Abubakar, alongside four other counsels to the DSS, namely M.E. Ernest, U.B. Bulla, C.S. Eze, and E.G. Orubor.

Confirming the development on a Facebook post yesterday, Sowore wrote: “The State Security Service, alias @OfficialDSSNG, today filed a five-count charge at the Federal High Court in Abuja against ‘X’ (formerly Twitter Facebook, and myself. They claimed that because I called Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu a criminal, I have somehow committed a set of ‘novel’ offences they invented and spread across five counts.

“It’s hard to believe there’s anyone sensible left in these offices that should be making Nigeria work. Regardless, I will be present whenever this case is assigned for trial. #RevolutionNow.”

In the five-count criminal charges marked FHC/ABJ/CR)481/2025, Sowore was accused of using his official X handle page at Yele Sowore to tweet “This criminal @ official PBAT actually went to Brazil to state that there is no more corruption under his regime in Nigeria. What audacity to lie shamelessly!

The alleged offending post, said to be contrary to Section 24(2) (b) of the Cybercrimes Prohibition and Prevention Act 2024, was said to have been made on August 25 within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court.

In count two, Sowore was said to have, on August 26, used his official Facebook page to send the same “false message” out for the purpose of causing a breakdown of law and order in the country, especially among those holding divergent views on the person of President Bola Tinubu.

The alleged offence is said to be contrary to Section 24(2) (b) of the Cybercrimes Prohibition and Prevention Act 2024. In count three, the activist was accused of using the instrumentality of X, via his official account X account at Yele Sowore to publish defamatory material on his online platform, to wit.

He was said to have committed an offence contrary to section 375 of the Criminal Code.