Activist and publisher, Omoyele Sowore, has criticised the Federal Government after the Department of State Services on Sunday asked Meta, the parent company of Facebook, to deactivate his account over a post he made against President Bola Tinubu.
Recall that the DSS had earlier on Saturday written to X, and given the corporation 24 hours to delete Sowore’s tweet that described Tinubu as a criminal.
DSS described the statement as defamatory and threatening to national security, but Sowore vowed not to delete it.
In a post on his X on Monday, Sowore said the Service has extended the sanction request to Facebook.
In a letter he shared dated September 7, 2025, and signed by Uwem Davies on behalf of the Director General of the DSS, the agency referenced the same post made on August 26, in which Sowore criticised Tinubu’s comments during a visit to Brazil and accused him of lying about corruption.
The DSS accused Sowore of spreading “misleading information” and engaging in “hate speech” with a post dated August 26, 2025.
The letter was addressed to Meta’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and was titled “Misleading Information and Willful Intention to Further an Ideology Capable of Serious Harm, Incitement to Violence, Cyber Crime, Hate Speech to Discredit/Disparage the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Cause Serious Threat to National Security of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
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