Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, has asked a federal high court in Abuja for time to apply for subpoenas compelling the director-general of the Department of State Services (DSS) and Bayo Onanuga, special adviser to the president on information and strategy, to testify in his ongoing trial over alleged criminal defamation.
At Wednesday’s proceedings, Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika, Sowore’s counsel, said he would seek a subpoena for the DSS director-general after a defence witness, Uwem Davies, was unable to answer some of the questions put to him.
Olumide-Fusika also told the court that although he had applied for a subpoena to be issued to Onanuga, court bailiffs had been unable to serve him.
Davies, a DSS official who testified under subpoena, told the court he wrote a January 22 letter asking Sowore to delete social media posts about President Bola Tinubu on the directive of the DSS director-general
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