The Court of Appeal in Abuja has granted Omoyele Sowore’s application to file notice of appeal against the ruling of the Federal High Court, Abuja, which confined the pro-democracy activist to Abuja.
A three-member panel of the court headed by Moore Adumei gave Mr Sowore, an activist and publisher of Sahara Reporters, the nod to file his notice of appeal within 14 days.
This followed an application by Mr Sowore’s lawyer, Marshal Abubakar, for an extension of time to file his client’s notice of appeal.
The order granted by the court regularised Mr Sowore’s appeal deeming it to have been duly filed, and the next stage is the hearing of the case on merit by the appellate court.
Mr Sowore and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare, are being prosecuted on treasonable felony charges for calling for a revolution through a protest tagged ‘Revolution Now’ in August 2019.
They both pleaded not guilty.
Ijeoma Ojukwu, the trial judge at the Federal High Court in Abuja, had granted bail to Mr Sowore and Mr Bakare in the sum of N100 million and N50 million respectively.
Mrs Ojukwu said Mr Sowore should produce two sureties in like sum.
Of the N100 million bail sum, N50 million was to be deposited with the court while the balance was to be put in place should Mr Sowore jump bail.