BEVERLY HILLS, October 24, (THEWILL) – A former spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh, has requested that former President Goodluck Jonathan appear as a witness in his trial.
THEWILL recalls that Metuh is being tried by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on charges of money laundering for allegedly receiving N400m from the office of Sambo Dasuki, former National Security Adviser (NSA), illegally.
When the case resumed on Monday, Onyechi Ikpeazu, counsel to Metuh, told the presiding judge, Okon Abang of the Abuja Federal High Court, that he had written Jonathan to that effect but that the former president was yet to reply.
“We have another witness on 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,” Ikpeazu said.
“The other witness we want to subpoena is Goodluck Jonathan, former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“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 subpoena to be issued on Dasuki).”
THEWILL also recalls that Metuh had also requested for Dasuki to testify in his trial but the latter said he must be released from the custody of the Department of State Service (DSS) if he is to testify in defence of Metuh.
