Following the arrest of the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) , Chief Olisa Metuh, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the party's national leadership has demanded his immediate release.This was contained in a statement by Prof. Adewale Oladipo, the National Secretary of the party.

Read statement below:

This development, which did not come to us as a surprise given series of threats to our party’s spokesman by the APC and the Federal Government, who are obviously not comfortable with our stance on the confused state of the nation under their watch, is a continuation of APC’s grand design to silence and decimate the PDP.

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.

The PDP declares the arrest of our spokesman as the last straw that may break our democracy. We therefore forewarn the Federal Government and its agencies to save our democracy and forthwith release our National Publicity Secretary.

We are also calling on the international community and well-meaning Nigerians to stand up for this democracy, which our party nurtured for 16 years and deepened to a level where the opposition, for the first time in our political history, had the opportunity to win in a general election.



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Nonsense..they will all regret the day they shared that money!

Nigerians welcome the change you asked for. All the insults Lie Mohamed gave GEJ, nobody harrassed him, why arresting Metuh? Good morning Nigerians.

PDP d killer party.

The international community is watching.

It didn't break with the arrest of Dasuki who as NSA has a load of top secret info to divulge,its with a common thief and noise maker, Olisa Metuh it wud break!
I am embarrassed on behalf of d parents of the man that made that statement.

ShowYourCertificate:
The international community is watching.

Watching Corrupt people?

espn:
Nonsense..they will all regret the day they shared that money!

Where is the evidence that any money was shared? They just arrest people and start releasing statements to the media without allowing the other party to tell his own part of the story and you zombies swallow everything hool, line and sinker! Is this a surprised that this happened few days after Metuh called Buhari a tyrant and was warned before he repeated it again?

Mboi:
Nigerians welcome the change you asked for. All the insults Lie Mohamed gave GEJ, nobody harrassed him, why arresting Metuh? Good morning Nigerians.

You have to first prove that Dasuki shared arms money with Lai Mohammed for anybody to take your cry serious.

If Metuh isn't a witch, the hunt targeted at him will fail. No need for you and PDP to panic.

NgeneUkwenu:


Watching Corrupt people?

Watching the intimidation of the opposition and the bias fight against corruption.

Asari Dokobo Said it
Tompolo Said it
Boko Haram Said it
Biafra Said It
Now
PDP is saying it...

Laughing in chinese

theV0ice:


You have to first prove that Dasuki shared arms money with Lai Mohammed for anybody to take your cry serious.

If Metuh isn't a witch, the hunt targeted at him will fail. No need for you and PDP to panic.

Femi Adesina and Buhari's names were also mentioned in the #DasukiGate saga, why haven't they been picked up by the EFCC or questioned?

We are also calling on the international community and well-meaning Nigerians to stand up for this democracy, which our party nurtured for 16 years and deepened to a level where the opposition, for the first time in our political history, had the opportunity to win in a general election.

Oga Secretary, we are standing up for democracy, hence, our position that Olisa Metuh should get a team of brilliant lawyers and explain all what he knows to the investigators. If the investigator aren't satisfied, he should be prepared to explain himself to the judge. There is no two ways about this. This is a democratic process.


However, if he knows within Himself that he ate our scarce resources(yams), he should save us time by surrendering his yams and plead for forgiveness. But whether or not he agrees, the law must take its course.



God Bless Nigeria

ShowYourCertificate:
Femi Adesina and Buhari's names were also mentioned in the #DasukiGate saga, why haven't they been picked up by the EFCC or questioned?

Don't mind the zombies . We haven't heard a rebuttal to Buhari niece accusation

wachakuta:
Asari Dokobo Said it
Tompolo Said it
Now
PDP is saying it...

Laughing in chinese

Abi ooo. At this rate, and if not for the fact Nigeria is full of empty chest - beaters and cowards, then all of us should currently be busy picking up the pieces of our nation considering the uncountable "Nigeria will break up" threats against her from empty charlatans.

Overenwmen Nogbaisi (can't get the spelling), a novel I read in JSS 2 said if an aggrieved servant cannot match his master face to face, he would go for his master's favourite goat.

ShowYourCertificate:
Femi Adesina and Buhari's names were also mentioned in the #DasukiGate saga, why haven't they been picked up by the EFCC or questioned?

I see...how much did Dasuki tell you he gave Buhari again?? I hope he showed you the bank teller or a copy of the transfer instructions? Abi did he misplace his 'evidence'

Dasuki mentioned Femi Adeshina? Oti o

I hope he didn't lose that evidence too? He had better not o because the red herring he conjured up concerning Buhari didn't obviously work as you guys expected

Wailers be like "Buhari is scared of Dasuki implicating him....therefore bail is sure"

Pdp again with their empty threaten! Come to think of it, who is metuh? Nobody... A mere noise maker! Like lie Muhammad like metuh..

ShowYourCertificate:
Watching the intimidation of the opposition and the bias fight against corruption.

ahahahahha... Clap for yourself! You deserve a hot slap...

@Post.

Nigerians are the biggest empty Braggarts in the world. They only make noise to then beg when you call their bluff bluntly. By the end of 2016 every Nigerian will understand we are in a new era led by a President who will not make noise to dignify threats against Nigeria but will instead move silently, firmly and decisively against such threats as Kanu and his followers have discovered expensively. The days of every charlatan threatening Nigeria are over.

I thought Pdp ealier said that Metuh was only given a friendly invite why using the word arrest again.
#Chiefwailerasbeingindictedlol

What is the problem with buhari sef

ShowYourCertificate:
Watching the intimidation of the opposition and the bias fight against corruption.

I prefer bias in fighting corruption to not fighting corruption at all

Why should anyone be corrupt at all?

If you don't want bias to be shown against you, don't be corrupt.

Simples.

ShowYourCertificate:
The international community is watching.

you said the same thing some months ago, when Nnamdi kanu was arrested yet the so called international community didn't come for his rescue! Wake up from your slumber, this is new Nigeria!

Its a pity we are backing dis. Nigerians sha, let's continue to watch. We all pray d PDP is crippled but what happens when APC goes rogue as is always d case? Let's back lawlessness and pray it doesn't backfire

Damager:
Its a pity we are backing dis. Nigerians sha, let's continue to watch. We all pray d PDP is crippled but what happens when APC goes rogue as is always d case? Let's back lawlessness and pray it doesn't backfire

If APC goes rogue, they'll self destruct and their successors will expose, deal with them and recover whatever they steal...

Eventually the Nigerian big man will learn to be circumspect in his behavior.

The way I see it, its a win win for Nigeria and Nigerians

yahrant140:

you said the same thing some months ago, when Nnamdi kanu was arrested yet the so called international community didn't come for his rescue! Wake up from your slumber, this is new Nigeria!

That is Nigerians for you. They make noise, threaten others foolishly and pick fights unnecessarily only to then be begging and seeking the intervention of this power and that power when they are been dealt with for their misconduct. Kanu now knows better
than to threaten other Nigerians as if we are chickens merely because everybody was getting away with such in the past. Jokers.

Mboi:
Nigerians welcome the change you asked for. All the insults Lie Mohamed gave GEJ, nobody harrassed him, why arresting Metuh? Good morning Nigerians.

it shall never been well with u.May God rule ur life as pdp rule nigeria and also may God loot ur life as pdp loot our money.OLORIBURUKU

Buhari is an unrepentant tyrant...



I expect more from the crazy dictator!

ShowYourCertificate:
The international community is watching.

Please define 'international community'


A community of international people?

After watching, what will they do?

Damager:
Its a pity we are backing dis. Nigerians sha, let's continue to watch. We all pray d PDP is crippled but what happens when APC goes rogue as is always d case? Let's back lawlessness and pray it doesn't backfire

I don't pray for the PDP to be crippled.

I don't pray for the APC to be crippled.

But may all corrupt people be crippled.

chesterlee:
Buhari is an unrepentant tyrant...




I expect more from the crazy dictator!

Yes. We expect more against corrupt people.

If that's the new definition of tyranny, so be it!