A Chief Magistrate Court sitting at Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, on Tuesday, adjourned the trial of activist and convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr Omoleye Sowore and his co-Defendants, to May 7.
Sowore walked into the court premises with a culturally dressed man, shortly before the proceedings commenced in the case against him.
The man who described himself as Sowore’s spiritual advisor, stormed the court in solidarity with the defendants.

 

The ‘spiritual advisor’ tied a red wrapper around his waist, even as he held a middle-sized calabash in his right hand.
Other items like white cowries, snail shell and an object that looked like a dried skull of an animal, were attached to his red robe.
According to a police official who appeared as the first witness in the matter, the  defendants were arrested in the early hours of January 1, while allegedly engaging in an unlawful assembly.
The witness told the court that Sowore and the others were inciting public disturbance before they were apprehended by a team of policemen at the Lokogoma junction in Abuja.
While under cross-examination, he said though he did not personally arrest Sowore, he was however a member of the team that effected the arrest of all the defendants.
Before the case was adjourned till May 7, Chief Magistrate Mabel Segun-Bello varied the bail conditions earlier attached to

the 2nd to 5th Defendants.

The Magistrate granted them permission to travel outside Abuja until the next adjourned date, but ordered Sowore to remain in Abuja and physically report to the Registrar of the court every Monday and Friday, pending the hearing and determination of the case against them.

The four other defendants in the matter are Juwon Sanyaolu, Peter Williams, Damilare Adenola and Emmanuel Bulus.
The court had in a ruling on January 11, granted Sowore bail to the tune of N20million with two sureties in like sum, even as it gave his co-Defendants bail in the sum of N1m each with one surety.
It held that one of the two persons that would stand surety for Sowore must be a civil servant not below grade level 12.
Police had in the charge before the court, alleged that the Defendants were arrested with placards that called for a violent revolution against President Muhammadu Buhari.