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Gbeminiyi Ogunleye
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Sowore Tenders Video Of Reno Omokri Calling Tinubu International Drug Baron In Court «
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday admitted in evidence a video clip showing Nigeria’s newly appointed ambassador awaiting deployment, Reno Omokri, calling President Bola Tinubu a “drug lord”.
Judge Mohammed Umar admitted the video clip alongside another one presented by the defence team in Mr Sowore’s trial on cybercrime charges, which stemmed from his August 2025 social media posts calling Mr Tinubu a criminal.
Mr Sowore faces two cybercrime charges over his posts on Facebook and X in August 2025 calling Mr Tinubu a criminal. The charges alleged that Mr Sowore’s posts were designed to cause a breakdown of law and order in the country and to tarnish the personality and reputation of President Tinubu.
The activist’s defence team presented two video clips, both of which centred on Mr Omokri’s comments regarding Mr Tinubu, during the cross-examination of the prosecution’s first witness, Cyril Nosike, on Tuesday.
The first video clip, recorded in the lead-up to the 2023 presidential election during which Mr Omokri fiercely opposed Mr Tinubu, then presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, was played in the open court on Tuesday.
Vanguard newspaper reported that the clip showed Mr Omokri in a 2023 interview on ARISE News, boastingly saying he had documentary evidence to support his claim that Mr Tinubu was a “drug lord.”
