It may be true that there are certain things people do to others, they may not take the same from anyone, this assertion appeared to have come into play in the current administration of Nigeria President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu who in the era of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan apparently used spin logic to always make false statements, incite the public against the government, destroy the reputation and personality of the then President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, as you may know, spin logic in communication is a Public Relations campaign strategy that uses deliberate biased or misleading interpretations of events and information to influence public perception, in one of the viral videos between 2012 and 2014 in the history of politics in Nigeria, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who was then a Chieftain of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN and later All Progressives Congress, APC, allegedly told a gathering of thousands of people that the then President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan said Nigeria citizens should face death or starve to death, directly or indirectly saying that the then President Jonathan did not care about the wellbeing of his people, till date, Tinubu has not shown any evidence to back up his claim that “the people are hungry, President Jonathan said they should face death”, and in some occasions, Tinubu called on the police not to attack protesters, specifically, on November 29, 2013, Tinubu tweeted via Tweeter now X social media platform that: “Police, Do not attack protesters, Your children are involved, Your lives are involved, Your Children’s future lie here”, and urged millions of Nigerians to protest peacefully against the Jonathan led government and in one of the protests, ‘Occupy Naija’ allegedly sponsored by Bola Ahmed Tinubu according to Reno Omokri who was then a media spokesperson to Jonathan, the then President Jonathan’s photo was placed on a coffin as a dead man and the coffin was labelled R.I.P meaning Rest In Peace, also, in February 2011 as reported by Nigeria media, Tinubu described the then-President Goodluck Jonathan as a ‘drunkard-sinking fisherman’ a word that appears to falsely described the then President Jonathan as a man that always take too much of alcohol to the extent of losing control of his behaviour, but, under the same Tinubu who is now the President of Nigeria, the State Security Service, SSS also known as the Department of State Service, DSS has filed a court case against Facebook and X social media companies over a post published separately on August 25 and 26 2025 by a well known human rights activist and anti government critic, Omoyele Sowore and his online media, SaharaReporters, and in the five count charges, the DSS accused Omoyele Sowore of making defamatory or false statements against the person of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for describing the president as a criminal after the president allegedly said there is no more corruption in Nigeria, in the legal battle, Omoyele Sowore has also gone to court to stop Facebook, X social media from deleting his posts and sued the DSS for unconstitutional media censorship.

The DSS in the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/484/2025, also joined Mata, the parent company of Facebook and X Corporation as defendants at the Federal High Court in Abuja.

The criminal charges filed and dated September 16, was filed by Mohammed Abubakar, Director of Public Prosecutions, Federal Ministry of Justice after the DSS wrote to Facebook, X and Sowore to delete the post and deactivate Sowore account but the parties appeared to have refused to honour the DSS requests.

In the five-count charge, Sowore, the Publisher of SaharaReporters, was alleged to have made a false claim against the person of the President by referring to him as “a criminal.”

Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in 2019 and 2023, in the charge is accused of contravening the provisions of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Amendment Act, 2024.

Count one of the charge alleged that Sowore, on or about August 25, did use his official X handle page, @YeleSowore, to send out a message/tweet.

The message is said to be, “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 message, which he knew to be false, was posted “for the purpose of causing a breakdown of law and order in the country, especially among individuals, who hold divergent views on the personality of the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR).”

The offence is said to be contrary to Section 24 (1) (b) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Amendment Act, 2024, among other counts.

Meanwhile, Omoyele Sowore also filed a lawsuit against the DSS and owners of Meta and X Corporation not to delete his posts, saying, the issue is about principles not personality.

Sowore originating summon reads; “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 Corporation (formerly Twitter).

These suits were filed to challenge the unconstitutional censorship initiated by the DSS/SSS against Sowore’s accounts maintained with Meta and X.

The lawsuit states categorically that this is about the survival of free speech in Nigeria. If state agencies can dictate to global platforms who may speak and what may be said, then no Nigerian is safe; their voices will be silenced at the whim of those in power.

Censorship of political criticism is alien to democracy. The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, in Section 39, guarantees every citizen the right to freedom of expression, without interference. No security agency, no matter how powerful, can suspend or delete those rights.

Meta and X must also understand this: when they bow to unlawful censorship demands, they become complicit in the suppression of liberty. They cannot hide behind neutrality while authoritarianism is exported onto their platforms.

Our prayers before the Court are simple:
That the SSS has no power in law to censor Nigerians on social media; That Meta and X must not lend their platforms as tools of repression; and That our client’s rights and by extension, the rights of all Nigerians, be fully protected against unlawful censorship.

We call on all lovers of freedom, journalists, human rights defenders, and the Nigerian people to stand firm. Today it is Sowore; tomorrow it may be you.

This struggle is not about personalities. It is about principle. And we shall resist every attempt to turn Nigeria into a digital dictatorship. Signed, Tope Temokun of
ToPE TeMOKUN ChAMBERS, LaGOS, Esquire on 16/09/2025″.

We had reported that as people of Nepal in South Asia country took to the streets in an unprecedented manner to protest an end to corruption and bad leadership in the country during the week after a short-lived ban on social media by the Nepalese government, Nigeria secret police known as Department of State Security Services, DSS appeared to have doubled efforts apparently to avert the unpleasant Nepal situation in the West Africa country, a situation where some politicians in the South Asia country tasted the bitter side of their citizens like never before, this, the DSS has appeared to be on the neck of X social media management to ensure the deletion of a post tweeted by the founder of SaharaReporters news media and a well known anti government critic, Omoyele Sowore that allegedly described the Nigeria President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a criminal, a statement Sowore made in reaction to the words of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over corruption in Nigeria while the President was on official visit in Brazil, the DSS said Sowore misrepresented the President statement and as such, the supporters of the President are not happy over it, hence, the Security Service demanded a retracted publication from Omoyele Sowore, but, in a swift reaction, Omoyele declined and accused the DSS of always acting illegally.

Osazuwa Akonedo

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