Former National publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh has secured his release from the Kuje Correctional Centre where he was serving his 7-year jail term since conviction in February on charges of money laundering.
His release followed last week’s court of appeal Judgement which nullified his 7-year sentence and set aside his conviction on grounds that the proceedings at the federal high court were tainted with bias.
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The appeal court justices also noted that the trial judge Okon Abang made disparaging comments in the course of the trial that betrayed his mindset against the defendant.
The proceedings were therefore declared a nullity with an order for the case file to be returned to the chief judge of the Federal High Court for re-assignment to another judge.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
