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Activist and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has countersued the Department of State Services (DSS), filing two fundamental human rights actions in the Federal High Court, Abuja.
Also named in the lawsuits are social media giants Meta (Facebook) and X Corp over what Sowore’s lawyers call ‘unconstitutional censorship’ against their client’s accounts.
The legal team, speaking in a statement signed by Tope Temokun, said the lawsuit is about the survival of free speech in Nigeria.
“If state agencies can dictate to global platforms who may speak and what may be said, then no Nigerian is safe; their voices will be silenced at the whims of those in power.”
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“Censorship of political criticism is alien to democracy. The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, in Section 39, guarantees every citizen the right to freedom of expression, without interference. No security agency, no matter how powerful, can suspend or delete those rights,” they said.
According to them, Meta and X must also understand that when they bow to unlawful censorship demands, they become complicit in the suppression of the struggle for liberty.
“They cannot hide behind neutrality while authoritarianism is exported onto their platforms,” the statement added.
