The Department of State Services (DSS) has written to X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter, demanding an urgent deactivation of Omoyele Sowore’s verified X account.
The agency said one of Sowore’s recent posts on President Bola Tinubu is capable of inciting violence and threatening national security.
On the 25th August, 2025 about 11:38 PM local time (2338 hours) WAT, Sowore had on his X official handle page
@YeleSowore disparaging and ridiculing the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The Tweet read:
“This criminal @officialABAT actually went to Brazil to state that there is NO MORE corruption under his regime in Nigeria. What audacity to lie shamelessly!”
Those words were personally directed at Mr. President through his official
communication channel @officialABAT which is the known X handle of the
President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The said tweet is herewith attached
and will be referenced on herein for emphasis and necessary action.
The said tweet is still in circulation and has attracted widespread condemnation by
majority of Nigerians, some of whom may resort to unwholesome activities to vent
their grievance over it, especially supporters of the President who have started taking to the streets in protest, thereby creating political tension and threatening the country’s national security. This is in addition to the disparaging effect the tweet has on the reputation of Mr. President and the country before the comity of nations.
The tweet under reference is against the transparency on X and Government has
frowned at it and found it extremely dangerous, false, privacy violation behavior
that manipulate and negatively impacts on the person of the President and the Country.
It is pertinent to bring to your knowledge that under the Nigerian Law, these quoted tweets/words constitute offence punishable in Section 51 of the Criminal Code Act Cap.77 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, which prohibits publication of false information; Sections 19,22 and 24 of the Cyber Crimes Act 2025 which prohibits and makes it an offence to spread fake news or publishing content that is deliberately misleading or deceptive, posting content that is rude, vulgar, offensive, or indecent, especially with the intent to embarrass or humiliate others, provoke ethnic, religious, or tribal hatred through online or offline statements; amounting to domestic terrorism. The Law also makes the offender and the medium through which the offence is perpetrated/propagated culpable and criminally liable too. The author and purveyor of the inflammatory online publication against Mr. President is very much aware that the publication is also prohibited by Section 2(3) of the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022 and other relevant Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
It is not in doubt that the words employed by Mr. Omoyele Sowore is misleading
information, online harassment and abuse, wilful intention of furthering an ideology capable of serious harm, hate speech, cause
disunity, discredit/disparage the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria within the Comity of Nations to damage the image of Nigeria and cause serious threat to national security of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
