The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) has described as eminently revealing what it called the direct
unwarranted and unjustified official intrusion and negative suggestions of the
Presidency in the on-going trial of its former National Publicity Secretary, Chief
Olisa Metuh.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s
Personal Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie had mocked Metuh for
arriving an Abuja Federal High Court in a stretcher; tweeting “NOLLYWOOD drama
Starring Olisa Metuh. Act 2 scene 1.”
However, the PDP said the hateful
comment by the Presidency, through its aide, Lauretta Onochie, mocking Chief
Metuh’s worsened health condition and his being brought to the court from the
hospital, in obedience to order of court, as a “nollywood’ act, had further
confirmed that the interest of the current administration in the matter is
beyond the bounds of seeking justice in its prosecution.
The PDP, in a statement by its
National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Wednesday said the
presidency had been intruding into Chief Metuh’s case since inception just to
set up the former spokesperson before the judiciary.
“It is repulsive that a
Presidential aide has once again intruded directly, with malicious suggestions,
in a matter that is on judicial trial, thus further exposing that Chief Metuh’s
travails in the course of the trial, may have been politically hatched and
orchestrated.
“It is instructive to state that
Chief Metuh, whose spinal chord ailment has badly deteriorated, was brought to
court in his current medical state, sequel to the order of the trial judge.
“It is public knowledge that
Justice Abang on January 25, 2018 rejected medical reports from doctors at the
Nnamdi Azikiwe Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, where Chief Metuh had been on
admission and ordered him to appear in court on Monday, January 5, 2018 or have
his bail revoked. In fact, the judge ruled that he would thenceforth not accept
any other report issued by any medical doctor on the accused.
“It is therefore irresponsible,
wicked and an unpardonable act of inhumanity, for the presidency or any of its
agents to mock Chief Metuh for obeying the order of court, even in his current
state of health”, the party stated.
Lamenting that there was a
sinister design against Chief Metuh, the PDP said it had information that
government agents had been harassing medical aides and practitioners across the
country for offering any form of treatment or assistance to him.
The party said that viewing such
alongside negative and hostile disposition towards medical reports on Metuh,
any responsible person can safely conclude that there is a grand conspiracy to
persecute the accused.
“While we are not opposed to the
trial of any of our members for any matter whatsoever, we insist that the
process must be fair, without external influences and in strict compliance with
provisions of the law,” it said.
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