The Department of State Security  (DSS) on Thursday night released human rights activist, Publisher of Sahara Reporters and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the 2019 presidential elections, Omoyele Sowore. His co-detainee, Adebayo Bakare, also gained his freedom.

Sowore was arrested on August 3 for planning a series of protests tagged #RevolutionNow to demand good governance from the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government of Nigeria. He was arrested and prosecuted on charges of treasonable felony.

Sowore  met his bail conditions on November 6 but he was not released. The DSS  insisted that their proceedure demanded that he would be released only to an important person and that nobody had approached the department for that purpose.

However, a Federal judge, on Thursday morning gave the DSS 24 hours for  Sowore to be released and the department to pay a fine of N100,000 for his continued detention.