Ex-PDP spokesman, Metuh regains freedom, secures N250m bail
Eleven months after he was convicted and remanded in Kuje Correctional Center, former spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, on Thursday, regained his freedom. Metuh’s release from prison custody followed a ruling of the Federal High Court in Abuja, which admitted him to bail in the sum of N250million. Justice Nkeonye Maha’s granted an application Metuh’s team of lawyers led by Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN, brought to give effect to the November 16 judgment of the Court of Appeal in Abuja, which quashed the conviction and seven-year jail term that was earlier handed to their client