Nigeria, Oct. 26 -- A bail has been granted to the former presidential candidate and the convener of the #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest, Omoyele Sowore on Friday, by a Magistrate Court sitting in Kuje Area Council, Abuja.

Meanwhile, Sowore was immediately re-arrested after stepping out of the court by the police, and is expected to be arraigned before a Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday for different offence.

It would be recalled that Sowore was arrested on Thursday at the Federal High Court premises in Abuja, shorty after meeting with the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), and was immediately taken to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command, where he was kept in custody till this Friday morning.

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