… Metuh’s arrest may break democracy – PDP
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday grilled the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh, for nine hours over alleged N1.4billion arms cash traced to a company in which he has high stake.
There were indications that Metuh might be detained by the agency.
However, the EFCC is investigating alleged “curious” payment of N63million to a group led by a former Special Assistant to the President (National Assembly Liaison) Alh. Tanko Yakassai, for the 2015 election.
Yakassai may also be invited for interaction by the anti-graft agency.
Meanwhile, the national leadership of the PDP has demanded the immediate release of Metuh.
The party warned that Metuh’s arrest and detention could be the last straw that might break the nation’s democracy, saying the party spokesman’s arrest was a grand design to silence and decimate the PDP.
A statement issued on Tuesday by the party’s National Secretary, Prof. Wale Oladipo, said the arrest did not come to a surprise, given series of threats to his life by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Federal Government.
The party raised the alarm that security agents 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.
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