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Police Sue Activist Fejiro Oliver For Calling Sheriff Oborevwori “Sleeping Governor”

The Delta State Police Command has dragged activist and journalist Fejiro Oliver to court, accusing him of using Facebook posts to tarnish the image of Governor Sheriff Oborevwori.

Fejiro Oliver, who was arrested in Abuja in September before being transferred to Delta, is being prosecuted under the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act, 2015.

Court documents filed at the high court in Asaba alleged that between July and August 2025, Oliver published a series of posts targeting Oborevwori.

In the posts, he reportedly accused the governor of secretly travelling to Brazil, awarding inflated contracts to allies for election manipulation, and wasting millions of dollars on government trips to China for bus inspections.

He also described the governor as a “sleeping governor who rigged election.”

“That you, Oghenedoro Tega Fejiro Oliver, m, between the months of July and August 2025, in Asaba, within the Asaba Judicial Division, did make publications on your Facebook account with the name ‘Fejiro Oliver’, cyberstalking His Excellency Sheriff Oborevwori — the Governor of Delta State — stating that: the Governor travelled to Brazil without the people knowing and kept it hush-hush, the Governor awarded contracts worth billions of naira to his boys for election rigging, the Governor sent government officials to China spending millions of dollars only to inspect CNG buses instead of attracting investors, and that the Governor is a ‘sleeping governor who rigged election’,” the document reads.

The police alleged that these statements were made to damage Oborevwori’s reputation and constitute an offence under section 24(2)(c) of the Cybercrime Law.

The charge sheet also listed separate allegations involving Senator Ede Dafinone of Delta Central, whom Oliver, between May and July, labelled with derogatory names such as “sleeping senator,” “POS senator,” and “scammer in NASS.”

“That you made publications on your Facebook account with the name ‘Fejiro Oliver’, cyberstalking Senator Ede Dafinone, currently representing Delta Central Senatorial District in the Nigerian Senate, calling him different names such as ‘grossly incompetent senator, sleeping senator, betraying ingrate, Dodo senator, POS senator, Scammer in NASS,’ and that Senator Ede Dafinone must be recalled from the Senate, which publication was aimed at destroying his reputation, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 24 (2)(c)(ii) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Act, 2015, as amended.”

According to the police, he also accused Dafinone of hoarding school buses and transformers intended for his constituents, noting that those remarks amount to cyberstalking and fall under the same cybercrime provisions.

KanyiDaily had also reported how Omoyele Sowore, activist and publisher of Sahara Reporters, alleged that he was assaulted by police officers while in custody at the Force Intelligence Department in Abuja.

Tobias Sylvester

Tobias Sylvester is the news editor for Kanyi Daily News and is based in Lagos. Contact Tobias at editor@kanyidaily.com. Got a confidential tip? Submit it here

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