{"id":36945,"date":"2017-10-27T12:54:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T11:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/?p=36945"},"modified":"2017-10-27T12:54:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T11:54:26","slug":"will-never-used-ex-president-jonathan-metuh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/will-never-used-ex-president-jonathan-metuh\/","title":{"rendered":"I WILL NEVER BE USED AGAINST EX-PRESIDENT JONATHAN \u2013 METUH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),\u00a0<strong>Olisa Metuh<\/strong>\u00a0has said he would never betray ex-President\u00a0<strong>Goodluck Jonathan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The EFCC had arraigned\u00a0<strong>Metuh<\/strong>\u00a0and his\u00a0company, Destra Investments Limited for receiving\u00a0N400 million meant for procurement of arms from the office of the National Security Adviser.<\/li>\n<li>Metuh had asked the court subpoena, Jonathan, to appear as a defence witness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Metuh<\/strong>\u00a0said his decision to ask Jonathan to testify was to prove his innocence.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt is, therefore, inconceivable and completely ridiculous for anybody to think that I would for any reason betray or surrender myself to be used against President Goodluck Jonathan, for whom I have immense respect and served diligently, without any apologies, in and out of office,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo what end will I conspire with the same set of people, who singled me out to be humiliated and openly handcuffed, while spreading all manner of malicious stories against me, most of which they even denied outright in court while others remain completely unsubstantiated?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrdinarily, the content of the charge against me in the Federal High Court should not breed any worries but for the fact that it now appears that the anti-corruption fight has shifted the burden of proof to a defendant once an allegation is made.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout prejudice to all the foregoing, I accept that it was the need for corroboration of lack of mens rea on my part that led my lawyers to request for the evidence of the respected former President to assist them in proving my innocence.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>He added that he has asked his lawyers to review the subpoena due to the controversies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, with all the controversies arising from the reports of the said pronouncements and the attendant concerns thereof, I have instructed my legal team to revisit and review the entire issue of the subpoena,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),\u00a0Olisa Metuh\u00a0has said he would never betray ex-President\u00a0Goodluck Jonathan. Background: The EFCC had arraigned\u00a0Metuh\u00a0and his\u00a0company, Destra Investments Limited for receiving\u00a0N400 million meant for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[525,8298],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Olisa-Metuh-EFCC.png?fit=603%2C537&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36677,"url":"https:\/\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/allow-call-jonathan-witness-metuh-tells-court\/","url_meta":{"origin":36945,"position":0},"title":"ALLOW ME CALL JONATHAN AS A WITNESS, METUH TELLS COURT","author":"Arinze Ago","date":"October 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Former National Publicity Secretary of the\u00a0Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh on Monday told the Federal High Court in Abuja that he would like to subpoena former\u00a0President Goodluck Jonathan\u00a0as his defence witness. 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