Publisher and activist, Omoyele Sowore, has described the action of the Department of State Security DSS writing the owners of micro-blogging app, X, to delete his account over a tweet he wrote about President Tinubu as a “national disgrace.”
The security agency in its letter asked the app to delete Sowore’s handle over a post he made in August that read
The agency said Sowore’s post was personally directed at President Tinubu and it “attracted widespread condemnation by majority of Nigerians, some of whom may resort to unwholesome activities to vent their grievance over it.” The agency added that Sowore’s tweets have a disparaging effect on the reputation of Mr. President and Nigeria before the comity of nations. Read here
Sowore has since taken to his handle to react. He wrote;
The Drowning Tinubu Regime Exports National Disgrace to Twitter, Again @OfficialDSSNG Joins the Fray After Nigeria Police Failure.
This morning I woke up to yet another act of national disgrace, an assault on institutions, and on common sense. I had seen it coming since last Tuesday, when a group of hired DSS protesters paraded around the Federal High Court and the Federal Ministry of Justice, chanting that I should “leave Tinubu alone,” even demanding that the DSS arrest me.
So it came as no surprise to discover a ridiculously crafted letter from the DSS to X (formerly @Twitter), demanding that my Twitter account be deactivated within 24 hours. I won’t be surprised if the same has been extended to my @Facebook page, where similar views have gained currency against Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT and redundant, corrupt, and non-performing state governors.
The brazenness of this is not only unconstitutional, and I need not even mention the constitution, because these guys are outlaws who operate above their own laws; however, this latest self-disgrace by the @OfficialDSSNG is a desecration of national dignity.
The @officialABAT regime has long hidden behind the Nigeria Police Force to harass, torture, and persecute me.
First, during the #EndBadGovernance national protest, they ordered the Nigerian Immigration Service @nigimmigration to place me on a ‘no-entry’ list at all international airports. Following that, the illegal IGP had me arrested for calling him what he is.
A Federal High Court judge was procured to seize my passport since February 2025. I was then rearrested recently, my cell was broken into by eight armed police officers who injured my right hand, and dragged again to court on trumped-up charges.
They have gone so far as to falsely declare in open court last week that I am engaged in “terrorism financing,” a shameless pretext to justify unlawful actions and prepare the public for further attacks against me in acts that include the use of state actors masquerading as non-state actors to harm me physically, this is the exact reason the DSS claims that “Tinubu supporters” are angry. But who are these supporters, if not the leadership of the DSS, the @PoliceNG , and other security agencies that have become conscienceless and totally lost to national priority?
To now export this disgrace to Twitter in the US shows how far Nigeria has sunk into the hands of its most incompetent and dysfunctional citizens, saddled with the responsibility of managing its national security.
The DSS and I have been here before under the defunct Buhari regime. The same methods were deployed, force, subterfuge, and hiding behind rogue units. It all fell flat. And just as before, the leading actors will once again disappear into obscurity.
I have asked Nigerians the most critical question before, and I ask it again: Do you want to continue being held hostage by a tiny, wicked, inhumane band of rogues?
As for me, there is no going back. The struggle against these criminals continues ceaselessly with or without a Twitter account, with or without Facebook, and whether I am in jail or outside of it.
The struggle continues.”
