The Department of State Services (DSS) on Thursday, tendered a generated copy of the message posted by the Sahara Reporters Publisher, Omoyele Sowore, on his social media handles at the Federal Hugh Court, Abuja.
The DSS also played the video evidence of President Bola Tinubu’s speech made on August 26, 2025, during his state’s visit to Brazil.
The secret police arraigned Sowore for allegedly cyberstalking the President.
Sowore is standing trial for allegedly referring to the President as “criminal” in his X and Meta handles.
Both the message and the video recording in a flash drive were admitted in evidence and marked as exhibits by Justice Mohammed Umar after counsel for the defendant, Marshal Abubakar, reserved his objection till final written addresses stage.
In Thursday’s proceeding, the first prosecution witness (PW-1), Cyril Nosike, was led in evidence by DSS lawyer, Akinlolu Kehinde (SAN).
Nosike told the court he works at the DSS Cyberspace Monitoring Centre.
He said: “My duty is to monitor the cyberspace 24 hours, night and day.
“I am here to give evidence in support of the charges filed against the defendant.
“On the 26th of August, 2025, in the course of my duty at the Cyberspace Monitoring Centre, I detected and monitored a post by the defendant through his X handle.
“The post was referenced as such: ‘This criminal @officialABAT actually went to Brazil to say that there is no more corruption under his regime in Nigeria. What an audacity to lie shamelessly.’”
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