DSS Takes Facebook, X To Court Over Sowore Posts Against President Tinubu

DSS Takes Facebook, X To Court Over Sowore Posts Against President Tinubu https://osazuwaakonedo.news/dss-takes-facebook-x-to-court-over-sowore-posts-against-president-tinubu/17/09/2025/ #Issues #Dss #facebook #Jonathan #Sowore #Tinubu #X ©September 17th, 2025 ®September 17, 2025 2:27 pm It may be true that there are certain things people do to others, they may not take the same from anyone, this assertion appeared to have come into play in the current administration of Nigeria President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu who in the era of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan apparently used spin logic to always make false statements, incite the public against the government, destroy the reputation and personality of the then President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, as you may know, spin logic in communication is a Public Relations campaign strategy that uses deliberate biased or misleading interpretations of events and information to influence public perception, in one of the viral videos between 2012 and 2014 in the history of politics in Nigeria, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who was then a Chieftain of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN and later All Progressives Congress, APC, allegedly told a gathering of thousands of people that the then President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan said Nigeria citizens should face death or starve to death, directly or indirectly saying that the then President Jonathan did not care about the wellbeing of his people, till date, Tinubu has not shown any evidence to back up his claim that "the people are hungry, President Jonathan said they should face death", and in some occasions, Tinubu called on the police not to attack protesters, specifically, on November 29, 2013, Tinubu tweeted via Tweeter now X social media platform that: "Police, Do not attack protesters, Your children are involved, Your lives are involved, Your Children's future lie here", and urged millions of Nigerians to protest peacefully against the Jonathan led government and in one of the protests, 'Occupy Naija' allegedly sponsored by Bola Ahmed Tinubu according to Reno Omokri who was then a media spokesperson to Jonathan, the then President Jonathan’s photo was placed on a coffin as a dead man and the coffin was labelled R.I.P meaning Rest In Peace, also, in February 2011 as reported by Nigeria media, Tinubu described the then-President Goodluck Jonathan as a 'drunkard-sinking fisherman' a word that appears to falsely described the then President Jonathan as a man that always take too much of alcohol to the extent of losing control of his behaviour, but, under the same Tinubu who is now the President of Nigeria, the State Security Service, SSS also known as the Department of State Service, DSS has filed a court case against Facebook and X social media companies over a post published separately on August 25 and 26 2025 by a well known human rights activist and anti government critic, Omoyele Sowore and his online media, SaharaReporters, and in the five count charges, the DSS accused Omoyele Sowore of making defamatory or false statements against the person of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for describing the president as a criminal after the president allegedly said there is no more corruption in Nigeria, in the legal battle, Omoyele Sowore has also gone to court to stop Facebook, X social media from deleting his posts and sued the DSS for unconstitutional media censorship. #OsazuwaAkonedo