Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), has withdrawn his plan to call the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Oluwatosin Ajayi, as a witness in his ongoing criminal defamation trial involving President Bola Tinubu.
Sowore, through his legal team, informed the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday that the evidence he intended to elicit from the DSS chief could be obtained from other officials of the agency.
The development came after Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, who led the prosecution for the Federal Government, objected to the subpoena issued on Ajayi.
Fagbemi argued that the key document in question, a letter directing Sowore to remove a social media post labeling President Tinubu as a “criminal” was not authored by the DSS boss.
The AGF noted that the letter had already been tendered and admitted as an exhibit twice
