PDP National publicity secretary, Olisah Metuh
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said its spokesman, Chief Olisa Metuh is cooperating with investigators at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), adding that he has admitted receiving the sum of N400 million from former President Goodluck Jonathan for an assignment he did. The party said Metuh has also indicated his readiness to make public the nature of the assignment, but only in the law court, where his statement would not be distorted by anyone.
A statement yesterday from the PDP national publicity unit, signed by Metuh’s special assistant, Richard Ihediwa, lamented what the party termed ‘untrue reports’ in the media, saying the spokesman believed that his continued detention and failure to charge him to court are deliberately intended to prevent him from telling his own side of the story in the open court for all Nigerians to know. The party said Chief Metuh had since informed that sometime in December 2015, the office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) published an invitation to companies they believed executed contracts for it for a chat, adding that upon invitation via a text message, Metuh, regardless of the fact that he did not execute any contract for the Office, appeared before the ONSA panel, wherein he presented his company’s statement of account showing that the sum of N400 million paid on the instruction of the ex-President for an assignment was traceable to the ONSA account. “Recall that Chief Metuh, even before visiting ONSA had at a media briefing acknowledged the receipt of N400 million from the ex-President for the exercise of the said assignment. Following the developments, Chief Metuh, as a responsible citizen canceled his intended travels for the Yuletide and issued a statement wherein he noted his readiness for any invitation and investigation by the EFCC or any other agency of government for that matter. “We are therefore worried at the continued media persecution where a citizen is being charged, sentenced and jailed in the court of the media, instead of being charged to the law court as required by the law. “This office urges Nigerians not to lose sight of the sequence and inconsistencies in the investigation and publications regarding Chief Metuh’s case.
We believe that in this case, the law must not be suspended but applied in its full measure, by charging and allowing Chief Metuh to state his case in the open court instead of this continued media persecution against
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