The court of appeal in Abuja has nullified the federal high court judgment that convicted and sentenced a former national publicity secretary of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, to seven years imprisonment for money laundering.
A three-man panel led by Justice Stephen Adah in a unanimous judgment, delivered on Wednesday, held that the proceedings of the federal high court leading to the conviction of Metuh and his company, Destra Investment Limited, were tainted with bias, and therefore must not be allowed to stand.
Justice Adah, directed that the case file be sent back to the chief judge of the federal high court for reassignment to another judge other than Justice Abang.
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Justice Abang had in his judgment delivered on February 25, 2020, sentenced Metuh to seven years’ imprisonment for fraudulently receiving N400m from the office of the national security adviser then being headed by Col. Sambo Dasuki.
(Editor:Abaje Usekwe)
