Omoyele Sowore, a human rights activist and convener of Revolution Now, was granted freedom of movement by an Abuja Court of Appeal on Wednesday.
Sowore was detained in Abuja by a Federal High Court in 2019 after being charged with treasonable felony and cyberstalking the President Muhammadu Buhari.
Sowore can now leave Abuja but not leave Nigeria, according to the Appeal Court.
The court ruled that the restriction on the 2023 presidential candidate’s travel to Abuja was “excessive,” and thus lifted it.
Sowore was arrested in a Lagos hotel by operatives of the Department of State Service on August 3, 2019, for planning to organise a protest, tagged “#RevolutionNow”.
He was subsequently restricted to Abuja as part of the bail conditions granted to him by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu.
By the new verdict, Sowore could now move around Nigeria.