BEVERLY HILLS, December 15, (THEWILL) – The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh Tuesday alleged that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari has finalized plans to shut him up, as opposition spokesman.
Making this claim at a brief press conference in Abuja, Metuh said had a reason to believe that the present government is desperate to silence him as he had been hounded and harassed in the last seven months.
He however warned that the present government must avoid caving in to the temptation of using the apparatus of state power to settle personal scores.
Noting that the press briefing is necessitated by the time the nation found itself, particularly as it concerns him, he said: “In the last seven months, as opposition spokesperson, I have been hounded, harassed, intimidated and threatened severally. In order to avoid personal and family pressure, I had refrained from bringing them to the public domain.”
“However, on account of recent information available to me, I now have cause to believe that the federal government is desperate and may have finalised plans to silence me.”
“Nevertheless, I make bold to state the following: As someone who has been a private person, having not taken any public office, the choice of where, how and when to invest and conduct my personal business remains my prerogative.”
“In this regard, I note that I never had any contract dealings with the immediate past federal government or any of its security apparatus; In the course of my duties as the national publicity secretary of our party, the then leader of our party and president of the federal republic of Nigeria invited me and directed that I carry out some assignment relating to my office and which he duly funded.”
“It is important to note that the former president was fully satisfied with the way and manner I handled the assignment,” the PDP spokesman noted.
