Justice Mohammed Garba Umar of the Federal High Court in Abuja has turned down the application by the presidential candidate of the Action Alliance of Nigeria AAN, Omoyele Sowore seeking a long adjournment of his defamation trial.
The charge was filed against Sowore by the Department of the State Service, DSS, for allegedly defaming President Bola Tinubu.
Sowore, through his lawyer, Reuben Adakole, on Monday applied that his defense in the charge be shifted till after the two months annual vacation of the court.
The activist who is put on trial for allegedly calling President Tinubu a criminal on his Facebook page and X handle, predicated his application for a long adjournment on the ground that his lawyer, Olumide Fusika, SAN, was out of the country to attend to family matters.
His request was however vehemently opposed by counsel to the DSS, Mr Akinlolu Kehinde, SAN,
