Metuh collapses in Abuja, now in ICU of National Hospital

PDP’s national scribe Olisa Metuh slumped Tuesday during the party’s inauguration of Yobe and Borno caretaker committees at the PDP head office in Wuse, Abuja.

According to witnesses, Metuh went down and lay still on the ground before he was eventually rushed to the Intensive Care Unit of the National Hospital, Abuja.

His apparent infirmity surfaced a couple of days after an Appeal Court turned down his request to have his on-going trial halted.

The PDP spokesman has been facing trial over his alleged cut of $2.1 billion meant for arms purchase but shared by ex-NSA Sambo Dasuki to PDP members working for the re-election bid of former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015.

After arresting and interrogating him for about two weeks, the EFCC probing the scam charged Metuh with corruption.

The allegation was that his firm got N400 million from the office of the NSA.

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Metuh, in his defence said Jonathan game him a national assignment, and provided the fund, too.

He was also accused of destroying evidence. According to the agency, Metuh decided to chew up the statement he initially made during investigation—because some of his confession already implicated Jonathan

The embattled party man is a prized suspect for the EFCC. It claimed Metuh has obtained citizenship of one of the British Virgin Islands, and was about to flee the Nigeria early this year when he was nabbed.

The court ordered him to surrender his travel document, and pay N400 million in bail bond with two sureties in like sum.

Like most Nigerian politicians, Metuh may have to fly abroad for treatment if his health condition worsens.