Sowore Reacts as DSS Writes META, Demands Ban of Facebook Account

Human rights activist and presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore has called the Department of State Secret Service (DSS) incompetent and idle following the agency’s letter to META demanding a ban on his Facebook account over his post calling President Bola Tinubu a corrupt criminal.

In response on social media, Sowore alleged that the DSS recently reached out to Facebook, requesting the removal of content critical of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, whom he called tired, and criminal.”

“Lawless DSS, too idle and incompetent to secure Nigeria, where over 130 citizens were killed just yesterday, has now written to Facebook, begging them to delete content they find ‘offensive’ to their equally idle, tired, and criminal Commander-in-Chief, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” Sowore wrote.

DSS had also written to the X Corporation, owned by Elon Musk, demanding a ban on Sowore’s account over the same post.

Sowore, who has been rallying for #RevolutionNow, against the criminality and incompetence of the elected officials in the country, urged the Corporations to ignore the DSS and asked Nigerians, ‘How long do you want to continue being held hostage by a tiny, wicked, inhumane band of rogues?’

DSS letter reads;

7th September,2025

The Chairman and CEO
Meta (Facebook) Platform. Inc
1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park
California
USA
Email:press@fbcom; legal@fb.com

RE: 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.

DEMAND FOR IMMEDIATE AND URGENT BAN/DEACTIVATION OF A FACEBOOK ACCOUNT OWNED BY OMOYELE SOWORE THROUGH HIS FACEBOOK PAGE OMOYELE SOWORE AND HIS PERSONALISED LINK ON FACEBOOK http://www.facebook,com/OSowore OR ANY OTHER ACCOUNT MAINTAINED BY HIM.

We detected and monitored with dismay and consternation a widely circulated publication by Omoyele Sowore on his Facebook page “Omoyele Sowore on 26th August, 2025, disparaging and ridiculing the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The defamatory statement was personally directed at the Nigerian President and reads:

“This criminal @ official ABAT actually went to Brazil to state that there is NO MORE corruption under his regime in Nigeria. What audacity to lie shamelessly!”

The said post is still in circulation and has attracted widespread condemnation by the majority of Nigerians, and is causing both online and offline tension across the country, thereby creating political tension and threatening the country’s national security. This is in addition to the disparaging effect the post has on the reputation of Mr. President and the country before the comity of nations.

The post under reference has crossed the boundaries of decency and acceptable behaviour, and the Government has frowned at this extremely dangerous and false privacy violation that manipulates and negatively impacts the person of the President and the Country.

It is pertinent to bring to your knowledge that under the Nigerian Law, these quoted words constitute an offence punishable in Section 51 of the Criminal Code Act Cap.77 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, which prohibits publication of false information; Sections 19, 22 and 24 of the Cyber Crimes Act 2025 which prohibit and make it an offence to spread fake news or publish content that is deliberately misleading or deceptive, posting content that is rude, vulgar, offensive, or indecent, especially with the intent to embarrass or humiliate others, provoke ethnic, religious, or tribal hatred through online or offline statements; amounting to domestic terrorism. The Law also makes the offender and the medium through which the offence is perpetrated/propagated culpable and criminally liable too. The author and purveyor of the inflammatory online publication against Mr. President is very much aware that the publication is also prohibited by Section 2(3) of the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022 and other relevant Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

It is not in doubt that the words employed by Mr. Omoyele Sowore are misleading information, online harassment and abuse. It is also a willful
intention to further an ideology capable of serious harm, hate speech, cause disunity, discredit/disparage the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria within the Comity of Nations, to damage the image of Nigeria and cause a serious threat to the national security of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

It is against the above highlighted backdrop that we make an immediate and urgent demand on your corporation, to *as a matter of its own policy*, immediately TAKE DOWN the post and its attendant shares.

This demand is unequivocal with its attendant consequence. Should you fail, neglect and refuse to comply with the command in this notice, the Federal Government will be compelled to take far-reaching, sweeping and across-the-board measures through our organisation, whose mandate covers such criminal acts.

In light of the above having been made official to you, 24 hours is sufficient to take necessary action.

Yours faithfully,
Uwem Davies, fsi.
For: Director General State Services.