SAN FRANCISCO, October 04, (THEWILL) – The Federal High Court in Abuja has began hearing of the bail application of Omoyele Sowore, convener of the #RevolutionNow protest.
At the last adjourned date, Ijeoma Ojukwu the presiding judge fixed Friday to hear the bail application of Sowore and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare.
The duo were arraigned by the Federal Government on seven charges bordering on alleged conspiracy to commit treason and money laundering among others.
They were brought to the Federal High Court on Monday by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) and pleaded not guilty to all the charges against them.
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr Femi Falana, is in court to represent the defendants.
In the same vein, the Federal High Court, Calabar, will on Friday rule on a bail application by the incarcerated journalist, Agba Jalingo.
Mr Jalingo, the publisher of CrossRiverWatch, an online newspaper, with a focus on Cross River State, is in prison in Calabar. He is charged with treason, over a report about an alleged diversion of N500 million by the Cross River governor, Ben Ayade.
Arrested on August 22, he spent 34 days in police detention before he was arraigned on September 25.
The journalist appeared before Justice Simon Amobeda on Wednesday, with his lawyers pleading with the court to grant him bail.
The lead counsel, Attah Ochinke, a former attorney general in Cross River state, argued before the court that Mr Jalingo is determined to go through his trial and, therefore, would not jump bail. He also pleaded that the journalist should be admitted to bail on health ground.
However, the prosecution counsel, Dennis Tarhemba, opposed the bail application.
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