I was arrested after calling Buhari unrepentant tyrant — Metuh

The former spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),
Olisa Metuh said he was threatened and eventually arrested after
criticizing President Muhammadu Buhari as an ‘unrepentant
tyrant’.

Metuh said this while giving evidence as the 15th defence
witness in his trial alongside his company, Destra Investments Ltd,
in a seven-count charge of receiving the sum of N400m arms funds
from former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki in 2014
at the Federal High Court in Abuja.

Metuh said in the course of his duty as the Publicity Secretary
of the PDP in December 2015, he responded to the president’s Media
Chat where he informed Nigerians ‘that his government can arrest
and detain any Nigerian at will’ by telling him that he was
becoming ‘an unrepentant tyrant.’

Metuh said the statement “resulted in another round of warnings
and threats from the government that they would ‘not take it kindly
with Olisa Metuh as the Publicity Secretary of the PDP’.”

He said the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation
(SGF), Babachir Lawal, who led a Federal Government delegation to a
burial programme in Ebonyi State threatened him in the presence of
the elders of the PDP in the South East that the Federal Government
has decided to teach him a lesson.

Earlier, Justice Okon Abang refused an objection by prosecution
counsel, Sylvanus Tahir, to reject the irrelevant aspects of the
defence by Metuh.

The case has been adjourned to November 26 to 30 for
hearing.