Court rejects Sowore’s bid for long adjournment in Tinubu defamation trial

Justice Mohammed Garba Umar of the Federal High Court successful Abuja has turned down the exertion by the statesmanlike campaigner of the Action Alliance of Nigeria AAN, Omoyele Sowore seeking a agelong adjournment of his defamation trial.

The complaint was filed against Sowore by the Department of the State Service, DSS, for allegedly defaming President Bola Tinubu.

Sowore, done his lawyer, Reuben Adakole, on Monday applied that his defence successful the complaint beryllium shifted till aft the 2 months yearly abrogation of the court.

The activistic who is enactment connected proceedings for allegedly calling President Tinubu a transgression connected his Facebook leafage and X handle, predicated his exertion for a agelong adjournment connected the crushed that his lawyer, Olumide Fusika, SAN, was retired of the state to be to household matters.

His petition was nevertheless vehemently opposed by counsel to the DSS, Mr Akinlolu Kehinde, SAN, who drew the attraction of the tribunal to 10 erstwhile adjournments the proceedings suffered astatine the lawsuit of Sowore.

The elder lawyer told Justice Umar that the latest petition for agelong adjournment was a ploy to further frustrate the transgression trial.

Kehinde besides drew the attraction of the tribunal to day-to-day accelerated proceedings granted by the tribunal successful enactment with the provisions of the Administration of Criminal Justice System, ACJA, 2015, adding that granting 2 months adj...