Defamation: Kwara Government Withdraws its accusations against the Akoguns brother

Charges brought by the Kwara State government against Dare Akogun, senior editor of Sobi FM, and Abdulrasheed Akogun, publisher of Fresh Insight online TV, have been dropped.

The government prosecutor, Busari Olorundare, requested that the case from October 14, 2022, be withdrawn during the proceedings but provided no explanation for his request.

The case’s magistrate, Bio Salihu, acceded to the request, then dropped all of the accusations against the defendants and released them as a result.

The two were charged with criminal defamation and inciting the public against the government, according to a petition letter written by the governor’s chief press secretary, Mallam Rafiu Ajakaye, which was previously reported by Sobi FM’s judiciary correspondent Kayode Adeoti.

According to prior reports, the police charged the two with defamation and inciting the public against the government in a petition letter that was authored by the state’s chief press secretary, Mallam Rafiu Ajakaye.

Abdulrasheed, according to Ajakaye, accused the current administration of being the most corrupt and of facilitating the use of fifteen million naira to rig the most recent election of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kwara State chapter. The comment was made on the well-known WhatsApp platform, Kwara Commission.

Because the judiciary in the state was then grieving the tragic deaths of two esteemed members of the bar and the bench, late VC of KWASU, professor Mohammed Akanbi and late justice Titi Daibu, the court was unable to convene on the last adjourned date of November 23, 2022.