Sowore is accused of referring to the President as a criminal in a post on his X handle.
The DSS filed the five-count charge yesterday before the Federal High Court in Abuja.
It comes a few days after a request by the secret police on Facebook and X, the platforms Sowore allegedly deployed for his false claim, to pull the misleading message down.
In the charge, Mata (Facebook) Incorp and X Incorp are listed with Sowore as defendants.
Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in 2019 and 2023 and publisher of Sahara Reporters, is, in the charge, accused of contravening the provisions of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Amendment Act, 2024.
The Nation learnt that his arraignment on the charge is scheduled to happen anytime soon.
The Nation learnt last night that Sowore had also filed a counter-suit against the DSS.
One of the counts in the charge reads:
•That you, Omoyele Sowore, adult, male on or about August 25, 2025, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did use your official X handle page, @Yele Sowore, to send out a message/tweet as: ‘
“This Criminal @ official Pbat actually went to Brazil to state that there is no more corruption under his regime In Nigeria. What audacity to lie shamelessly!,” which you know the said message to be false but posted it for the purpose of causing a breakdown of law and order in the country, especially among individuals, who hold divergent views on the personality of the President...
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