The appeal court has dismissed a
suit filed by Olisa Metuh, former spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), to travel abroad for medical treatment.
In a ruling on Wednesday, the
appellate court maintained that Metuh’s application was “an abuse of court
process”, as he failed to disclose cogent reasons for him to seek medical
attention abroad.
The former PDP spokesman, through
his counsel, Onyechi Ikpeazu, had approached the court of appeal seeking to
upturn the decision of a federal high court which ordered that his
international passport should not be released to him .
Metuh had asked for his
travelling documents for him to travel to the United Kingdom for five weeks to
attend to “his failing health”.
Okon Abang, the trial judge, had
dismissed the application as “lacking in merit”, and sternly warned his counsel
against deploying tactics to delay the trial, which has been on since January
6, 2016.
“There is nothing before this
court, no substance in the application filed by the appellant, the court is
urged to dismiss the appellant’s application,” Abdul Aboki, the presiding judge
of the appellate court, ruled.
Aboki also dismissed the
application on the transfer of the case from Abang based on bias.
“There is nothing before this
court that shows that the trial court is biased. The appeal is without
substance and is hereby dismissed,” Aboki ruled.
Metuh is being prosecuted by the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged N400 million fraud.
His trial is set to continue before Abang on February 25, 2019.
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