Sowore offers to help DJ Chicken get out of prison

African Action Congress presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has offered to support controversial disc jockey and TikTok personality, Ademola Abiodun, popularly known as DJ Chicken, following his arraignment over alleged threats against Seyi Tinubu, son of President Bola Tinubu.

Sowore made the offer in a post shared on his X handle on Monday, saying he was willing to advocate for the content creator and assist in challenging what he described as “burdensome charges.”

“If anyone knows how to reach DJ Chicken’s family or relatives, I will be happy to advocate for him and help him challenge the burdensome charges brought against him by the jobless @PoliceNG,” he wrote.

The former presidential candidate criticised what he described as the Federal Government’s prosecution of young Nigerians, insisting that DJ Chicken should not be behind bars.

I want to help get DJ Chicken out of prison because I do not believe he deserves to spend a day behind bars; he is entitled to his liberty under the law.

“Young Nigerians need opportunities, guidance, and justice, not persecution and endless incarceration,” he added.

Online reported that DJ Chicken was on Friday arraigned before a Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ogba, Lagos, on a three-count charge bordering on alleged threat to kill, conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace and offences under the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act, 2015.

The charges stemmed from a viral video in which the content creator, while commenting on the 2027 presidential election in Yoruba, allegedly threatened to kill Seyi Tinubu if President Bola Tinubu won re-election.

Following widespread backlash, DJ Chicken released another video retracting the statement, describing it as a joke intended to attract attention and insisting that he had no intention of harming the President’s son.

He pleaded not guilty to all three counts.

The trial magistrate, M.F. Onamusi, granted him bail in the sum of N1 million with two sureties in like sum and ordered that he be remanded at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre pending the fulfilment of his bail conditions.

The case was adjourned until August 3, 2026, for further proceedings.