DSS Demands X Suspend Sowore’s Account Over Tinubu Post
The Department of State Services (DSS) has written to X (formerly Twitter), demanding the urgent suspension of the verified account of activist and publisher Omoyele Sowore over a post on President Bola Tinubu. The agency alleged that Sowore’s August 25 post, in which he described Tinubu as a “criminal” while reacting to the president’s anti-corruption remarks in Brazil, was capable of inciting violence and undermining national security. In a letter dated September 6, signed by B. Bamigboye on behalf of the DSS Director-General, the agency said the “tweet” ridiculed the president before the international community and had already sparked protests by Tinubu’s supporters. “The said tweet is still in circulation and has attracted widespread condemnation by majority of Nigerians, some of whom may resort to unwholesome activities… thereby creating political tension and threatening the country’s national security,” the letter reads. […]
