The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) within the 2027 basic election, Omoyele Sowore, on Monday, misplaced his bid to compel the Director General of the Department of State Services, DSS, Oluwatosin Ajayi, to personally seem in court docket as a witness in his trial for allegedly cyberbullying President Bola Tinubu.
Justice Mohammed Garba Umar of the Federal High Court in Abuja dismissed the politician’s utility whereas delivering a ruling.
Monday’s ruling was the fourth loss Sowore would undergo for the reason that DSS approached the court docket to decide the propriety or in any other case of his calling President Tinubu “a criminal.”
The court docket had dismissed his utility that the trial breached his elementary human rights and likewise dismissed his preliminary objection to the matter. On the third event, the Chief Judge rejected Sowore’s bid for the recusal of the trial choose.
At the resumption of proceedings, Justice Umar delivered ruling on the arguments for and towards the subpoena issued to the DSS Director General at Sowore’s request.
Through his lawyer, Adeyinka Olumide Fusika, SAN, Sowore had sought an order of the court docket to compel the DG’s look to testify on official actions of the DSS relating to the cyberbullying case instituted towards him.
However, the DSS represented by Akinlolu Thomas Kehinde, SAN, had opposed the transfer, arguing that one other official of the company might testify on his behalf.
The senior lawyer argued that it was absurd for Sowore to be insisting on the DSS DG’s look in court docket in an motion that was purely official and never private.
He argued that for the reason that motion of the DSS in placing Sowore on trial, any official delegated by the group can testify for the institution.
In his ruling, Justice Umar held that the subpoena involved an official act of the DSS and that the anticipated testimony was not private to the Director-General.
The court docket consequently dominated that one other DSS official might seem to give proof on the company’s behalf.
Following the ruling, defence counsel Olumide Fusika SAN referred to as the third defence witness, Michael Jego, an investigating officer with the DSS, who’s presently being led in proof.
