METUH GETS REPRIEVE AS APPEAL COURT KNOCKS ABANG....You Exhibited Bias, Says Justice Adah

A former spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuhhas secured the nullification of his seven years jail term.

In its ruling on Thursday, the court held that Okon Abang, judge of a Federal High Court in Abuja, exhibited bias in the case of the former PDP spokesman.

A three-man panel of the appellate court nullified Metuh’s conviction on account of glaring bias by the trial judge, Justice Okon Abang.

Justice Stephen Adah, who delivered the judgment of the appellate court subsequently ordered a return of the suit to the Federal High Court for fresh hearing by another judge.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arraigned Metuh on seven counts of money laundering for allegedly receiving N400 million from the office of the national security adviser.

On February 25, 2020, the trial court pronounced him guilty on all counts of money laundering and sentenced him to seven years in prison.

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