Appeal Court Overturns Bail Conditions That Confined Sowore To Abuja

AN Abuja Appeal Court has overturned the bail conditions that confined Sahara Reporters publisher Omoyele Sowore to the nation’s capital since 2019.

On October 4, 2019, Ijeoma Ojukwu, judge of a federal high court, granted bail to Sowore to the tune of N100 million and two sureties in like sum, wherein one of the sureties was to deposit the sum of N50 million in the account of the court.

As part of the conditions, he was not to address any rally or public gathering and not to leave the FCT.

The court later varied the bail conditions, reducing the bond to N50 million after the defendant complained that the conditions were too stringent.

Dissatisfied, Sowore approached the court of appeal seeking to set aside the conditions that restricted him from addressing public gatherings and leaving the FCT.

But in a judgement on Wednesday, a three member of the court led by Justice Tsammani lifted altered the bail conditions, lifting the restriction on Sowore’s movement.

The court ruled that Sowore could now leave Abuja but not travel out of Nigeria.

The activist has declared his intention to run for president in 2023.

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