A group of PDP leaders has challenged fellow party leaders Olisa Metuh and Bello Mohammed to step down because of their pending case with the EFCC. The group published this in a statement signed by four national officers of the party.
Metuh is PDP publicity secretary and Mohammed is acting chairman of the Board of Trustees. Both of them are suspectedly complicit in the Dasukigate $2.1 billion fraud.
The leaders who want them out include Dennis Alonge-Niyi, the
deputy national youth leader; Bashir Maidugu, the deputy national legal adviser; Okey Nnaedozie, the deputy national organizing secretary and Abdullahi Jalo, the deputy national publicity secretary.
They said in their statement, “We hereby strongly dissociate the Peoples Democratic Party from the ongoing trials of Dr. Bello Halliru Mohammed ( Acting Chairman of Board of Trustees) and Chief Olisa Metuh ( National Publicity Secretary) on various charges antigraft agencies.
“They are said to have received funds using accounts of their private companies without the knowledge and instructions of any organ of the party. All those mentioned in the ongoing corruption trial are, therefore, on their own and the party was not involved financially or in anyway with the office of the National Security Adviser, NSA, or any organ of the federal government in the last regime.
“They must bear full responsibility for their actions and must henceforth refrain from dragging the name of the party into the mud.”
Metuh pleaded innocent at the federal high court in Abuja last week and was remanded at the Kuje prison. The court will determine his bail conditions at the next hearing tomorrow.