A former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh has requested that former President Goodluck Jonathan be invited as one of his defense witnesses. The former party spokesperson is standing trial for receiving over N400 million from the embattled former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.
At the resumed hearing of the case at the Federal High Court in Abuja today, Metuh’s lawyer, Onyechi Ikpeazu, requested Jonathan's appearance as a witness.
He told the court that, “We have another witness on a subpoena, and at the end of the evidence of this another witness, we will take a decision on whether or not the first defendant (Metuh) will testify. The other witness we want to subpoena is Goodluck Jonathan, former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
Ikpeazu told the court that the former President had been sent a letter but has not yet responded.
“We wrote him a letter but he did not respond and our plan will be to apply for the subpoena after the first application (for a subpoena to be issued on Dasuki).”
Recall that the EFCC had in January 2016, arraigned Metuh and his company, Destra Investments Limited, on counts of money laundering involving in an alleged cash transaction of $2million and fraudulent receipt of N400million meant for procurement of arms from the NSA office on November 22nd 2014.
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