Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, has withdrawn his plan to call Oluwatosin Ajayi, Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), as a defence witness in his ongoing trial for alleged criminal defamation.
Sowore, through his Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika, SAN, counsel informed Justice Mohammed Umar of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday that he would no longer insist on the appearance of the DSS boss personally.
The development followed arguments by Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, who challenged the validity of the subpoena issued on Ajayi, describing it as an abuse of the court process.
Sowore, who is also the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), is facing charges of criminal defamation, cyberstalking and incitement instituted by the DSS over a social media post in which he allegedly referred to President Bola Tinubu as “a criminal”.
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