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Online publisher and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has withdrawn his plan to call the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Adeola Ajayi, as a witness in his ongoing trial over the alleged criminal defamation of President Bola Tinubu on social media.
Sowore told the Federal High Court in Abuja that the evidence for which he had earlier subpoenaed the DSS boss could be obtained from another official of the service.
At Tuesday’s proceedings, the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), personally led the prosecution on behalf of the Federal Government for the first time in the case.
The AGF objected to the subpoena issued to the DSS Director-General, arguing that the document on which he was expected to testify was not authored by him but by another DSS official who…
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