The Presidency on Monday insisted that operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, did not desecrate the \u201ctemple of justice,\u201d following claims of courtroom invasion.<\/p>\n
President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina made the remark while faulting the comments of Sowore\u2019s counsel, Femi Falana on what transpired at an Abuja Federal High Court last week.<\/p>\n
Recall that last Friday, DSS operatives reportedly\u00a0chased out lawyers from the courtroom and attacked journalists and re-arrested Sowore.<\/p>\n
DSS, however, denied invading the courtroom before effecting Sowore\u2019s re-arrest.<\/p>\n
The spokesperson of DSS, Peter Afunanya,\u00a0had stated that the activist\u2019s supporters were only acting an \u201corchestrated drama\u201d inside the court.<\/p>\n
Afunanya had claimed that none of its officers was involved in the incidents recorded in the courtroom.<\/p>\n
Reacting to the saga on Channels Television\u2019s Sunrise Daily, Adesina accused Falana of being biased.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cFalana is not a neutral party; we know the side he belongs to in this matter. His opinion will not count much.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have had a concocted story, with concocted video or with incomplete video and then, the DSS has come out to give its own perspective and that then gives us a fairly balanced picture.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt still will decide on the predilection of people what to believe but if you are fair-minded, balanced, or neutral, I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll have a balanced perspective of what happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs far as I\u2019m concerned, if you ask my opinion, I think what happened was not a desecration of the temple of justice as being portrayed because the DSS has explained how things played out.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Presidency on Monday insisted that operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, did not desecrate the \u201ctemple of justice,\u201d following claims of courtroom invasion. President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina made the remark while faulting the comments of Sowore\u2019s counsel, Femi Falana on what transpired at an Abuja […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":10284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[119,924,158],"class_list":["post-18636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-dss","tag-omoyele-sowore","tag-presidency"],"yoast_head":"\n