Officials of the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) arrived the Abuja home of the spokesman of the
opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh this morning,
inviting him to follow them to the commission’s headquarters.
In a press released by Richard Ihediwa,
the Special Assistant to PDP National
Publicity Secretary, he said that the upon enquiry on the reasons for
the invitation, the officials stated that he has some issues to clear with the
commission.
They also said he was not being arrested
but friendly invited. The operatives, four in number, came in a White unmarked
Toyota Hiace bus. As at the time of issuing this statement, Chief Metuh is
still being kept at the commission’s headquarters and his lawyers were making
frantic efforts to reach him.
While details of why Chief Metuh was
invited is yet to be made public by the commission, it could be recalled that
severally, Chief Metuh, as the mouthpiece of the opposition party had alerted
in various press conferences and statements that he has been under threat and
that the ruling party and the government have been very uncomfortable with his
stance.
The latest being the outburst and
threats by the National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Oyegun in reaction to
Chief Metuh’s criticisms of President Buhari’s widely criticized response on
government’s disobedience of court orders, during the last Wednesday’s
Presidential Media chat.
The Office of the National Publicity
Secretary will keep the public updated on any development on the issue.
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