The special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on social media, Lauretta Onochie has said the former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh would walk before the next hearing. She shared a video of Olisa Metuh arriving the court in a wheelchair and wrote:
It’s a miracle! Oliseh Metuh was in court today, not on a stretcher but on a wheelchair, supported by his family, not doctors. The Ex-PDP Spokesperson Metuh ‘chopped’ Nigeria’s N400 million Naira & has been ‘playing’ the justice system. He’s expected to walk at next hearing.
It’s a miracle! Oliseh Metuh was in court today, not on a stretcher but on a wheelchair, supported by his family, not doctors.
The Ex-PDP Spokesperson Metuh ‘chopped’ Nigeria’s N400 million Naira & has been ‘playing’ the justice system.
He’s expected to walk at next hearing. pic.twitter.com/puPf6lLT1M
— Lauretta Onochie (@Laurestar) March 15, 2018
Metuh’s lawyer told the court that his client’s health had badly worsned in the past two months.
He said the situation would require urgent medical attention from his doctors in London.
He tendered as an exhibit, a letter from one Dr. Adrian T. H. Kasey, a Neurosurgeon at Wellington Hospital in London, which he said emphasized the need for Metuh to be treated urgently.
However, trial Justice Abang requested both the prosecution and defence lawyers to address him on whether the court could grant Metuh’s request considering that he previously dismissed two similar applications on May 25, 2016 and on February, 2017.