Fear grips Villa as PDP heavy weight shocks Buhari

The detained National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, on Monday January 11, 2016 filed a suit against President Muhammadu Buhari in a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos state, asking the court to order the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to release him from its custody.

Metuh had since January 5, 2016 been taken into custody by the EFCC for questioning, for allegedly benefiting from the $2.1bn arms funds allegedly diverted by a former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.

The EFCC believed that Metuh received N400 million of the allegedly diverted arms funds, but the PDP spokesperson had reportedly claimed that the sum was for an undisclosed service he rendered to former President Goodluck Jonathan.

On Monday 11 January, 2016, Metuh claimed in the suit he filed through his lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, that his arrest was part of the grand plan of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to silence the opposition and make Nigeria a one-party country.

“I verily believe that the applicant has not committed any offence other than his principled opposition to the ruling government and his arrest and detention are meant to silence the opposition and create a one-party state by the respondents to allow the APC to dominate Nigeria.

“Nobody knows the present whereabout of the applicant, as to his exact place of detention, his condition in the custody and how he is faring,” the lawyer said.
He urged the court to order the EFCC and the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, SAN, sued as the 2nd defendant, to immediately release Metuh.

This is coming as a shock to the Presidency which had earlier pressed on the EFCC to release a chieftain of the APC, and close ally of Buhari who was detained by the anti-graft agency.