Former national publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh, on Thursday, October 25, told the Federal High Court in Abuja the reason why President Muhammadu Buhari wants to jail him.
Testifying as the 15th Defence Witness, DW-15, the former PDP spokesman, claimed that his trial was a calculated attempt by All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government to silence him from criticising President Buhari’s dictatorial tendencies.
Metuh told the court that top APC members had prior to the time the EFCC arrested and subsequently charged him for fraud, tried to dissuade him from attacking President Buhari in the media.
He said the top APC members, whom he did not disclose their identities, equally complained of President Buhari’s governance style, saying they had lost confidence in his administration.
Metuh said after he refused to soft-pedal on his criticisms, he started receiving warnings to be cautious of a possible attack.
He said: “The then national chairman of the APC, Oyegun, publicly warned me that the APC was not happy with me and is not taking my criticisms lightly.
“Also, when President Buhari wants to engage in undemocratic practice, I would resist such by taking pressmen to houses of Nigerians, who were unlawfully held hostage in their houses, to conduct live press conferences, and that put an immediate stop to excesses of the DSS and other security agencies.”
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Metuh said the last action that informed the charges against him came after President Buhari allegedly made a broadcast on a live media chat.
According to him, Buhari informed Nigerians that his government can arrest and detain Nigerians at will.
“I immediately told him that he was becoming an unrepentant tyrant,” he said
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