By our reporter 6.7.2026
The Department of State Services Monday urged a Federal Court sitting in Abuja to return the African Action Congress presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore to prison after he allegedly failed to meet his bail conditions.
Mr. Sowore is facing trial on cybercrime charges brought by the DSS after he was alleged to have branded President Bola Tinubu a criminal on his social media platforms.
Presiding judge in the case Justice Umar Mohammed had committed Sowore to prison for skipping a trial date in June. After one week at the Kuje Correctional Centre, he was granted a N200m bail, he was to surrender his passport and present two sureties, one a traditional ruler from his home town and another a property owner in Abuja.
But at Monday’s hearing of the case the DSS reminded the judge Mr. Sowore was yet to meet any of the conditions.
“We urge your lordship to make a necessary order for the remand of the defendant until the bail conditions are met,” DSS lawyer Akinlolu Kehinde, SAN, told the court.
He said the defendant had not deposited his passport with the deputy chief registrar of the court, had not produced a traditional ruler from his community as surety, nor produced another surety who has landed property in Abuja, as ordered by the court.
However, Sowore’s counsel Mr. Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika SAN begged the court to exercise patience as the processes to perfect the bail terms were ongoing.
“It is incorrect that the conditions have not been met. When you meet a bail condition, the verification will have to be made by the court, and this is ongoing, my Lord,” he said.
Earlier during the hearing, Mr. Sowore opened his defence by calling his first defence witness, Deji Adeyanju, a lawyer and an activist.
Mr Adeyanju, who was led in evidence-in-chief by Olumide-Fusika, tendered video recordings on a flash drive and a certificate of compliance in Mr Sowore’s defence.
Mr Olumide-Fusika then sought an adjournment to enable them to play the video recordings on the next adjourned date.
Justice Mohammed Umar adjourned the day’s proceedings until July 13.