The trial of the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, over alleged cyberbullying was stalled on Thursday on the Federal High Court in Abuja following his absence and a letter searching for an adjournment.
At the point out of the case, prosecuting counsel, Akinlolu Kehinde (SAN), famous that the defendant was absent from court docket.
Defence counsel, T. O. Etonyeaku, who mentioned she was holding the transient of Sowore’s lead counsel, Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika (SAN), advised the court docket that the politician was in Ekiti State for his presidential campaigns.
Etonyeaku subsequently prayed the court docket for a stand-down to allow one other senior lawyer, who was earlier in court docket earlier than the graduation of proceedings, to reach and conduct the defence.
However, the presiding choose, Justice Mohammed Umar, drew the eye of each attorneys to a letter written to the court docket by Sowore and requested Kehinde whether or not he was conscious of it.
The prosecution counsel denied being copied on the letter, arguing that it was fallacious for an accused individual represented by a lawyer to bypass counsel and write on to the court docket with out copying the opposite celebration.
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He added that since there was no proof that Sowore had discontinued the providers of his lawyer, Olumide-Fusika, he ought to not have written personally to the court docket.
Kehinde, nonetheless, conceded to an adjournment within the curiosity of justice.
The prosecuting lawyer additionally famous that the defence was but to answer the written deal with he filed, as ordered by the court docket, on the difficulty of whether or not he might be subpoenaed to testify as a defence witness.
Justice Umar subsequently adjourned the case till November 3 for the adoption of addresses and continuation of the defence.
Sowore is being prosecuted by the Department of State Services (DSS) over posts he revealed on X, previously Twitter, and Facebook in August 2025, wherein he described President Bola Tinubu as a “criminal” and accused him of mendacity in regards to the stage of corruption within the nation.
