{
  "id": 4472362,
  "title": "SSS to seek suspension of Sowore’s cyberstalking trial amid growing 2027 electioneering",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/30/sss-to-seek-suspension-of-sowores-cyberstalking-trial-amid-growing",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-30T18:08:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Premium Times",
    "slug": "premium-times",
    "url": "https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/906346-sss-to-seek-suspension-of-sowores-cyberstalking-trial-amid-growing-2027-electioneering.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Department of State Services (DSS) has directed its counsel, Akintola Kehinde, to take steps to suspend the cyberstalking trial of Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), until after the 2027 presidential election. According to the DSS media unit, the directive was given by the agency's director-general, Oluwatosin Ajayi.\n\nThe AAC has rejected the reported suspension, asking the DSS to immediately discontinue the prosecution of Sowore. In a statement, the party's National Publicity Secretary, Rex Elanu, argued that Nigerian criminal procedure does not provide for the indefinite suspension of a criminal trial.\n\nThe DSS's decision to suspend the trial was made after a meeting between Ajayi, Kehinde, and top officials of the agency's legal directorate. The AAC has insisted that the suspension is not sufficient and wants the case dropped entirely.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}