The national leadership of the PDP has said it will not provide sureties for its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, who is now struggling to get as much as N1billion to meet two bail bonds.
The party said since Metuh was being prosecuted for money he collected for himself, he should go look for those who would stand as sureties for him elsewhere and not at the PDP head officer.
“Metuh didn’t represent the party in the alleged crimes he’s being prosecuted. The party didn’t benefit from the alleged crime.
“So, he is going to look for sureties himself. We won’t be involved. He would carry his own cross alone, without the party being involved.”
Deputy National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Alhaji Abdullahi Jalo, told PUNCH in an interview in Abuja that it would be wrong for anyone to be expecting the party to provide sureties for Metuh when the party did not benefit from the money he allegedly collected from ex-NSA Sabo Dasuki.
Metuh is facing charges for collecting N400m from Dasuki, an offence the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, described as money laundering.
Though Metuh said he actually collected the money, he said it was for a job he did for Goodluck Jonathan but he has refused to mention the job he did with the money.
He is also being prosecuted by EFCC for allegedly tearing statement he made while under interrogation.
There were anxieties on how he would meet the conditions in order to ease his release from the prisons.
But acting PDP spokesman, Jalo, said the party would not provide for the sureties for Metuh.
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