DasukiGate: PDP Demands Metuh's Release, Says Security Agents Are Trying to Kill Him

Posted by Lolade on Wed 06th Jan, 2016 - tori.ng

The Peoples' Democratic Party has raised an alarm over the arrest and detention of its spokesman Olisa Metuh over the ongoing investigation of the controversial $2bn arms deal.

PDP Spokesman, Olisa Metuh

The Peoples Democratic Party has demanded the immediate release of the party’s National Publicity Secretary Olisa Metuh, who was on Tuesday, January 5 arrested and detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The party warned that the arrest and detention of its spokesman was a grand design to silence and decimate the PDP.

A statement by National Secretary Prof. Wale Oladipo, said the arrest did not come as a surprise, given series of threats to his life by the ruling All Pessives Congress (APC) and the Federal Government.

The party raised the alarm that the security agencies were planning to kill its spokesman.

The statement said: “The arrest of Chief Metuh today underscores the growing political intolerance in our country and the foisting of a police state which was last Wednesday underscored by the President and Commander-in-Chief himself, who defended why a government in a democracy should flout constitutional provision and brazenly disobey court orders.

“This onslaught against our spokesman, according to intelligence available to us, is part of a larger script by the government to ensure that PDP wings are finally clipped in their mission to install a dictatorial one-party state in the country.

“The excesses of security agencies under this government, especially the Directorate of Security Services (DSS) and the EFCC, in abridging the human rights of PDP members have become worrisome and a threat to our democratic evolution.

“Nigerians and the international community will recall that on a number of occasions, the PDP, through its spokesman has been outspoken on some undemocratic proclivities being exhibited by the APC-led Federal Government in the last seven months.

“The PDP insists that for whatever reason Chief Metuh was arrested, his rights as a citizen under the law must not be trampled upon. We therefore demand for his immediate release and that due process of investigation and prosecution concerning him should be strictly adhered to.

“We state this because we have been made aware of top directives to break Chief Metuh and if possible poison him during his detention by the EFCC. "

Chief Metuh, has since his arrest at about 10 am, has been kept incommunicado, with his lawyers denied access to him.