…… says he remains suspended while Ken Emeakay remains expelled
The People’s Democratic Party in Anambra state have reaffirmed the suspension of the National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh from the party.
It will be noted that the party on the 12th of August during the meeting of the State Executive in Awka ratified the suspension of Metuh and the expulsion of Ken Emeakay who ceased being a member of the PDP in 2011, consequent upon his expulsion by the NWC. Mr Ken Emeakay had been parading himself as the party factional chairman.
The party in a communiqué obtained by THE HERALD in a bid to set the records straight listed the crimes committed by Mr Metuh.
“It is worthy to mention some of the allegations for which Olisa Metuh was suspended and for which we have asked the National Working Committee and the police to take action against Olisa Metuh and these are;
1. Embezzlement and diversion of over 100 Million Naira meant for Anambra PDP into his Company account PETTERGON NIG LTD. The Nigerian Police has concluded investigation, indicted him and recommended him for prosecution.
2. He openly worked against re-election of Ex-President Jonathan after embezzling over 300 Million given to him by the Ex-President for publicity.
3. He publicly disrespected the Ex-President after our Party lost the March 28th Presidential Election. He even demanded for him to give account of his stewardship as Ex-President.
4. He goes about in meetings castigating the Ex-President and his Wife.
5. He seized from Nnamdi Nwangwu (Campaign Coordinator of Ex-President in Metuh’s LGA) and embezzled over 12 Million Naira sent to his Nnewi-North LGA meant for March 28th Presidential election and released not a dime out of it. The March 28th presidential election was executed financially and otherwise courtesy of some major stakeholders in the area.
6. Obtaining money under false pretense by submitting names of 25 persons as members of Anambra House of Assembly, thereby deceiving the presidency that they were statutory delegates (while they were not), hence used this fraud to collect over 260,000 Dollars meant for them during the Dec 2014 PDP Convention and embezzling same without giving to those persons he fraudulently used their names to collect this huge sum. See annexure E being the brochure that was used for national convention, this is contrary to article 33(1)(f) of our party constitution which provides that it is the members of the House of Assembly are statutory delegates to national convention.
7. Extorting hundreds of millions from Anambra PDP aspirants between Sept and Dec 2014.
8. In conjunction with the said Ken Emeakayi traded out our party in the January 2014 Chairmanship and Local Government Election in Anambra State, after Olisa Metuh with his stooge Emekayi had embezzled and siphoned the sum of $500,000 US Dollars which he collected from the Ex-president Goodluck Jonathan (2014 January) for Anambra State PDP Councillorship and Chairmanship Candidates for January 2014 Local Government Area Elections. This led to PDP not clinching even 1 Chairmanship seat out of 21 seats because of lack of funds, he repeated same during the April 11th House of Assembly election. This led to our abysmal performance in which we won only 3 seats out of the 30 in the State).
9. Chief Olisa Metuh took over the function of National Organizing Secretary whose duty is to organize the conduct of congresses, unilaterally did same by advertising personally the said purported congress with only one day notice to Anambra PDP members on Thursday July 16th 2015 with information that congress will hold on Tuesday 21st July, 2015 when he knew that Friday and Monday are Sallah public holidays and the party faithfuls cannot pay in Diamond or Zenith Bank as stipulated in the publication. The publication is attached as annexure F. He organized the said congress by appointing his cronies Ike Abonyi and his Special Assistant one Colet Odenigbo as congress appeal committee chairman. He also presented his personal assistant one Sam Ben Nwosu who has been extorting N500,000 from each stakeholder to write their wards Exco list for them.
10. Diversion and non-remittance of over 30 Million Naira from the PDP NWC being the 10% and 5% which accrued to Anambra State Chapter and 21 LGAs Chapters respectively from sales of forms in last nomination exercise of the Party. Till now, he has not remitted this huge sum to the Anambra PDP.
It will be recalled that Metuh had denied ever being suspended by the party