Dasukigate: Still on hunger strike, Metuh admits he got paid for running ex-president’s errand

Olisa Metuh, the PDP spokesman cooling his heels in the EFCC detention, has confessed he only got paid for what former President Goodluck Jonathan asked him to do with the fund the president made available.

Metuh’s family revealed this in a statement signed by Gilbert Metuh, and released Wednesday, following the hunger strike the opposition publicity secretary embarked on 72 hours into his indefinite stay in EFCC’s coop.

The commission arrested Metuh Monday on the allegations he got N4 million monthly from the office of the ex-NSA Sambo Dasuki, and that N1.4 billion was traced to Destral Investment Ltd company owned by Metuh, a lawyer.

“We have confronted our son with these allegations and he assured us that they are completely false,” the family said.

“However, he acknowledged that in the course of his duties as the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, the then leader of the party and president of the country directed him to carry out some urgent national assignment relating to his office, which the former president duly funded and which he duly carried out to the satisfaction of the former president.”

The family further expressed its anxiety about the hunger strike because Metuh has been telling Nigerians his life is under threat, and he might be poisoned in detention.

“In view of the above therefore, we demand that the EFCC immediately release our son, Chief Metuh (Ugochidebelu Nnewi) from detention or charge him to court,” the statement read.

Metuh is among the horde of PDP stalwarts caught in the EFCC probe of $2.1 billion meant for arms purchase to fight insurgency, but diverted by Dasuki to bankroll PDP campaign expenses before the 2015 general elections.