Embattled National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Olisa Metuh,
has dragged the Federal government before a Federal High Court
in Abuja over his continued detention.
Metuh is being detained
for allegedly receiving N400 million from former National
Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki.
In a suit filed by his counsel, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, Metuh
claimed that his arrest by the antigraft agency was part of a
plan by the ruling party APC, to silence the PDP.
Metuh said that since Buhari came into office in May 2015, he
has organized the EFCC to serve as a tool to go after PDP
members. He argued that his detention tramples on his
fundamental human rights and also breached the African
Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and
Enforcement) Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
“I verily believe that the applicant has not committed
any offence other than his principled opposition to the
ruling government and his arrest and detention are
meant to silence the opposition and create a one-party
state by the respondents to allow the APC to dominate
Nigeria. Nobody knows the present whereabouts of the
applicant, as to his exact place of detention, his condition
in the custody and how he is faring. Recently, detainees
in the custody of the 1st respondent have been dying due
to lack of proper care and adequate medical facilities, as
the 1strespondent is not normally well-funded to
function effectively, except to be used by the ruling
government to hound the opposition,”
No judge has been assigned to the case.
