Sowore Can’t Use My Retracted Statement Against Tinubu as Defence –Omokri(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Reno Omokri, Nigeria’s ambassador-designate, has said activist and Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, cannot rely on his past statements about President Bola Tinubu as a defence in his ongoing cybercrime trial. However, in a new statement, Omokri said those remarks were made between 2022 and 2023 when he believed the allegations were true. According to him, the Supreme Court judgment clarified issues that had been widely misrepresented and confirmed that there were no criminal convictions against the president. On the legal issue, Omokri argued that it is improper for Sowore to rely on statements he had already withdrawn. Omokri insisted that Sowore cannot use his old remarks from 2022–2023 to defend comments made in 2025.