Alleged N400m fraud: Metuh’s lawyers apply to withdraw over alleged threat vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
—THE trial of the former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, took a dramatic turn yesterday as his team of lawyers asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to allow them to withdraw from the case.
“The counsel representing the 1st defendant have been going through immense pressure with respect to their appearance in this case including severe threat to their lives and will be unable to contain the 1st defendant”, read the withdrawal application predicated on section 349and of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, ACJA, 2015.
“I have received numerous threats to my life from diverse sources through telephone calls with disguised numbers, giving ultimatum and threatening to kill me based on the manner they claimed I had been mishandling the case,” he averred.Ikpeazu further told the court that his next in command, Etiaba, SAN, also informed him that “he had received similar threats and thus would no longer proceed with the representation of the 1st defendant.
Responding from the dock, Metuh told the court that he met with his lawyers on Monday evening, saying they took turns and recounted how they were traumatized by experiences they have had in the hands of the Federal Government since the trial started.Consequently, Justice Abang adjourned the matter till March 13.
Meanwhile, owing to the development, trial Justice Okon Abang sought Metuh’s opinion on what he would want the court to do in the circumstance.
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