The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday ordered the remand of Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of African Action Congress, AAC, in Kuje Correctional Centre.
Justice Mohammed Umar, in a short ruling, ordered Sowore to be kept in the correctional centre pending the hearing and determination of his motion for stay of the order for revocation of his bail and bench warrant.
Justice Umar also dismissed Sowore’s earlier application seeking the judge’s recusal from the case on the ground of alleged bias.
The judge then adjourned the matter until June 24 for hearing of the application for stay.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the motion for stay was filed by the defendant’s new lawyer, Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika, SAN.
NAN earlier reported that Sowore, also the publisher of Sahara Reporters, arrived at the court in company of members of his group with placards.
Justice Umar had, on June 16 revoked a bail granted to him following his failure to appear in court his trial.
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Justice Mohammed Umar, in a ruling on an oral application made by the lawyer to the Department of State Services, DSS, Akinkolu Kehinde, SAN, also issued a bench warrant for his arrest.
The DSS is prosecuting Sowore for allegedly making false claims against the person of President Bola Tinubu by referring to him as “a criminal” in a post he made on his “X” and Facebook accounts.
The prosecution alleges that the Defendant knowingly and intentionally sent messages he knew to be n false through his official “X”, formerly Twitter and Facebook handles, where he published the statement: “This criminal @oflicialABAT actually went to Brazil to state that there is no more corruption under his regime in Nigeria. What audacity to shamelessly lie’
The prosecution contends that by referring to the President and Commander in chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR. as a “criminal,” the Defendant published a false statement for the purpose of causing breakdown of law and order, posing threat to or causing such message to be sent.
NAN
