The Wednesday hearing
in the trial of a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic
Party, Olisa Metuh, has resumed before the Federal High Court in Abuja, but
former President Goodluck Jonathan and the detained ex-National Security Adviser,
Sambo Dasuki, ordered by the court to appear, are absent.
Jonathan’s absence from court
could be because of inability of the court bailiff to serve him with the
court’s subpoena on Tuesday, it was learnt.
But the Department of State
Service in whose custody Dasuki is detained has yet to produce the ex-NSA in
court.
The trial judge, Justice Okon Abang had announced in court on
Tuesday that he had, on Monday, issued a subpoena to be served on
Jonathan.
But a court registrar told the
judge during the Tuesday’s proceedings that the court bailiff had yet
to serve the former President with the subpoena.
Also on Tuesday, the judge
heard an application filed by Dasuki praying for an order setting setting aside
the subpoena issued on him.
But the judge, who fixed Wednesday (today)
for his ruling on Dasuki’s motion, had ordered that both the ex-NSA must appear
in court today.
The two men were summoned by the
court upon an application by Metuh requesting that they be ordered to testify
in his defence with respect to the sum of N400m which he was said to have
received fraudulently from the Office of the NSA in 2014.
The court is now delivering
ruling on Dasuki’s motion.
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