A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday heard
how PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa
Metuh, spent N171 million to launder ex-
President Goodluck Jonathan’s image ahead of
the 2015 elections.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that
Metuh is standing trial on allegation of
embezzling N400 million.
In his testimony before Justice Okon Abang,
Richard Ihediwa, the fifth defence witness, told
the court that Metuh spent N171 million on the
committee for the image laundering exercise.
Ihediwa said N140 million was spent on various
groups coordinated by aides to the former
President while N31 million was disbursed for
advertorials in several newspapers.
“Various aides to former president helped to
coordinate groups that worked across the country
with regards to boosting his image towards the
2015 Presidential Election.
“There were many aides to Jonathan who
coordinated those groups and they belonged
mostly to the media and publicity, strategy,
research and documentation departments.
“In the light of this, Metuh made a lot of
payments to these groups coordinated by
Presidential Aides and they received N140
million,” he said.
He, however, said the payments were made in
line with Jonathan’s directives, adding that
Metuh never used discretionary powers to
disburse the funds.
“There was also a bill of N31 million for
advertorial for the media, using representatives of
media houses reporting the beat.
“Metuh made the payment through me. I received
the payment through my Access Bank account
and consequently paid all the media houses.
“Some payments were made through transfers
while others were made in cash,” the witness
said.
Ihediwa said the issue of image laundering for the
former president was raised at the meeting of
PDP stakeholders and Metuh was assigned the
responsibility.
“The issue of his image was very important to
him because of that election. So, the major
mandate given to the team led by Metuh was to
find ways to improve on Jonathan’s standing
using the media.
“The fact is that the fund spent was not taken
from government treasury as alleged.
“I am aware funds were raised and domiciled with
the former president. At that time, the Fund
Raising Committee headed by Professor Jerry
Gana had started working and they held a
fundraising dinner,” he said.
The presiding judge however, adjourned the case
till Nov. 16 for continuation.
Metuh, who is facing a seven-count charge, was
also accused of an illegal 200,000 US dollars
transaction. (NAN)

www.thetrentonline.com/metuh-jonathan-witness-court/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

We kwn
we hv heard
we no won hear any tin about corruption
the country is nt moving forward

na wa...

lotta revelations everyday...

The only annoying thing is with all these money wasted, Jonathan lost woefully!

ceejayluv:


drop your contact pls, wanna join u urgently...

Seun mynd44 lalasticlala, this guy is just trying to be smart here. Created an account to advertise another Ponzi scheme in the making like MMM, then use his real moniker to quote the whole crap whilst editing the other post. Both monikets should be banned!

progress69:


Seun mynd44 lalasticlala, this guy is just trying to be smart here. Created an account to advertise another Ponzi scheme in the making like MMM, then use his real moniker to quote the whole crap whilst editing the other post. Both monikets should be banned!

guy, which one be ur own na....?

ceejayluv:

guy, which one be ur own na....?

Him own be say make dem send you on cumpulsory business leave

It's not government money? " Hahahahahahahahah dem sha wan rope Jonathan by all means


. Good news for me

Revisionism, history and defence of Jonathan By Charles Ogbu | 15 November 2016 | 3:50 am Former President Goodluck Jonathan PHOTO: Philip Ojisua First, let me make one thing very clear here. I did not support GEJ during the last election, not because he was not better than his Daura-born opponent, Muhammadu Buhari, but because despite his very good record as a democrat and a gentleman president plus his excellent economic achievements, I still considered him too weak and not competent enough to deserve my vote especially after the insensitive manner he treated the immigration job tragedy. I was at the national stadium. I saw my friend die in the stampede. When Jonathan refused to sack anybody for the job scam and the avoidable deaths that followed, I immediately knew the gods and the spirit of my dead friend would not forgive me if I gave this man my vote as insignificant as it was. I never made any post or comments in support of GEJ during the electioneering. But in all these, I never lost sight of the fact that mentioning the name GEJ and Buhari in the same sentence with a view to comparing them remained a moral tragedy. This article is borne out of a sincere desire not to sit back and watch morally bankrupt men twist history and destroy an innocent man with devilish lies. Having said these, let me come to the reason why I’m here. Undiluted, unadulterated, crude hate for Jonathan as a person and the desire to ensure his name is never associated with anything good is one thing every APC member and Buhari supporters have in common. This common characteristic is so strong…too strong, even! Matter of fact, it is stronger than the feeling of kinship that binds marijuana smokers together. If you are ‘a ganja man’, you will understand my drift here. Whether they belong to the Saraki faction, Tinubu faction, Buhari faction or even the latter day wailer-wanna-be faction, this common trait is the power house of all their activities the exact way the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. When you hear the APC tells you that the 16 years of PDP government is the cause of all our woes today, it is not the PDP they want you to blame, it is not even Obasanjo who ruled for eight solid years and is not the APC navigator-in- chief, it is Jonathan who was in power just for five years they want to incite you against. If you don’t believe me, ask yourself how come over 70% of all those holding public offices under APC today are ex-members of the PDP? Check all the ministers, governors, NASS members etc, over 70% of them left the PDP and were welcomed into the APC with an open arm and a baptism which washed away their sins and turned them to saints. If the APC strongly believes the PDP destroyed Nigeria, why welcome the same people into their party? Does this make any sense? Or is it just the acronym “PDP” that is the problem? Their target is GEJ. If not hate, why would anyone claim that Jonathan ran the most corrupt government in Nigeria history? Do these guys think we all have amnesia? So if we keep quite so as not to be accused of being paid by Jonathan or the PDP, these children of #broom will just alter history before our very eyes. So we have suddenly forgotten Abacha? Have we forgotten that all the money Dasuki is accused of sharing is not up to half of the very first set of stolen money recovered as Abacha loot, the same Abacha-thieving- government, their mini-god Buhari not only served under but vehemently defended and even swore by the seven gods that he didn’t steal a dime. This is even as billions of dollars (not naira) of the loot have continued to be returned to Nigeria. Have we suddenly forgotten the OBJs, the IBBs, the Abdulsalamis, the Buharis, the Gowons, etc who ran under the military system of government where there is no form of transparency? Or, they just selected only Jonathan’s government for probe and concluded it was the most corrupt? Which one did they compare it with or has it not occurred to them that for a thing to be adjudged the worst, it must have been compared with other things? These other men including the late Sani Abacha ruled the country with decrees and looted as they wanted but is it Jonathan who was in power for just five years that is the biggest thief in Nigeria history? Chai! Little wonder, these soulless liars were able to twist history and sold the political disaster called Muhammadu Buhari to Nigerians. First, they lied that Jonathan bought no single weapon for the military to prosecute the war on terror. When this lie could no longer stick, they amended it and claimed he actually bought some weapons but that they were substandard and were all backfiring and killing soldiers who were supposed to use them to fight Boko Haram. When Nigerians queried which weapons the APC government used to achieve ‘technical victory’ over Boko Haram since the ones acquired by Jonathan were all fake, the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed contradicted himself again by admitting the Jonathan government bought some good military hardware but that the prices were hugely exaggerated. Meanwhile, we all saw the newly acquired military hardware the GEJ administration secured from Russia after the U.S. and her allies refused selling us weapons as a result of a petition written to them in which El-Rufai, Murtala Nyako (ex-Adamawa State governor) and some Northern/APC leaders accused GEJ of using the military to reduce the population of the North under the guise of fighting Boko Haram. And we all witnessed as our soldiers used those weapons to liberate all our territories held by Boko Haram and sent the terrorists disguising as females to escape their superior firepower. Nigerians were all hash- tagging #NeverAgain as the military were combing the Sambisa forest in search of the Boko Haram boys. All these happened a little over a year ago. We could not have forgotten, could we? We have also not forgotten that the Boko boys were able to regroup immediately President Buhari came to power because he (Buhari) dismantled all military roadblocks set up purposely to checkmate their activities. We are not unaware of the fact that the same people hell-bent on blaming Jonathan even for the 1914 amalgamation hailed that ill-advised move. Another lie they’ve come up with is that GEJ caused our current economic woes by allowing those who served under him loot the treasury. This is a very big lie and here is why: Corruption alone doesn’t kill an economy. Else, our economy would have died a long time ago because there has always been corruption in the system right from the very first post-independence government of Nnamdi Azikiwe and Tafawa Balewa. Leaders of every military coup have always cited corruption as the reason for their intervention. There was systemic corruption during GEJ’s era just as there has always been systemic corruption but the big question is: How come the only two times Nigeria has gone into recession was in 1984 when Buhari was in power and 2016 when the same Buhari is in power again? Despite all the looting in Abacha government, Nigeria didn’t go into recession. Despite all the looting by all the other military rulers, we didn’t go into recession. The only two times was three decades ago and now…..all under the same Buhari. Haba! Even if you are incapable of any sort of intelligent reasoning, you should be able to figure this one out at least Let’s even look at the two reasons advanced by IMF as the reasons for the recession: 1) Plunging oil revenue as a result of the crises in the Niger Delta which is the location of the oil the economy is heavily dependent on. 2) Weakened investors’ confidence in the country/economy. It is on record that barely two weeks after being sworn in as president, Buhari resurrected the Niger Delta crises by bombing the region, cutting the amnesty budget drastically and terminating the oil pipeline surveillance contract given to the ex-militants. The rush with which those actions were taken tends to suggest that public interest was the last thing on the president’s mind. In addition, Buhari went to America and made it clear he would discriminate against those who didn’t give him 97% of their vote. Whatever lies we chose to believe, we must not forget that these reckless ill- conceived actions of Buhari were hugely responsible for the current crisis in the Niger Delta which has led to plunging oil revenue blamed as one of the reasons for the recession. Weakened investors’ confidence: When Buhari took over from GEJ, rather than hit the ground running, he abandoned not just the economy but the entire country. He left the whole country on autopilot. No government in place, no minister, no economic direction. For over six months. Now tell me, if you were an investor looking for where to invest your money, would you invest in such an economy? After every election, investors always wait for the new government to reel out her economic policy to enable them to consider their chances of getting favourable return should they invest in such an economy. These guys are businessmen, not some bunch of “money miss road”. Buhari single-handedly weakened their confidence by leaving the entire country and the economy on autopilot for over six months. Is this even debatable? How exactly did Jonathan cause our current economic woes? Buhari complained he met a treasury that was almost empty which is a lie because a man who met a virtually empty treasury would not start building a helipad in his hometown in Daura. Such a man would not start traveling all over the world in company of governors from his APC party. Jonathan had one of the best economic teams. What Buhari has as an economic team is a bunch of sycophants who are mostly lawyers like the VP, the national planning minister, the president’s chief of staff who are all lawyers by profession and the trade and investment minister who is a medical doctor. The economists in the so-called economic advisory team are not up to four. Please don’t take my word for it. Do your own research. The over six months Buhari wasted before forming his government, the fact that he doesn’t have a competent economic team and his reckless action in bombing the Niger Delta, the reckless manner he terminated the oil pipeline contract which was part of the amnesty deal with the militants and slashing the amnesty budget were the main reasons why our economy went south. Jonathan didn’t cause all these, did he? Now, let us even assume that Jonathan looted everything, did he loot Buhari’s brain and his economic management abilities? Isn’t it 18 months already? Is 18 months not long enough for citizens to start feeling the impact of a government headed by a man who spent 12 solid years begging for the job and promising that he had studied all our problems and was ready to solve them all if only we would elect him president? Jonathan is human. He is no saint. He has his faults but he was a democrat. As president, he was a perfect gentleman. When he was stoned in Bauchi, he ran and was whisked away by his security details. None of those Bauchi-stone throwing boys were even arrested. But under Buhari, an ordinary army chief killed hundreds of people for blocking his convoy. Jonathan conceded defeat to Buhari in the 2015 election but in 2011 when he ran under a little known newly formed CPC, Buhari rejected the election result and incited his followers into killing hundreds of innocent Nigerians including youth corps members. Jonathan had plans. He was slow but he did have plans, some of which we are already seeing. The worst enemy Jonathan had was his media team. They were completely useless. These incompetent people failed to bring most of GEJ achievements in the open. But those achievements are still the President Buhari must be made to understand that at the end of his tenure, he would be judged not by what his predecessor did or didn’t do but by how he (Buhari) was able to manipulate economic and social-political indices he met on ground to get Nigerians to a better living condition than he met them. Enough of the puerile rhetoric from the presidency, please! This is the time to get to work. Let me just end this with this free piece of advice to my APC brethren: The best way to defend a government that is 18 months old in office is by reeling out its achievements, not by blaming the government before it. Buhari was not voted in as president just so he could spend the whole tenure telling us who and who caused our problem. We already know those who caused our problems and Buhari is one of them. He was voted in because he promised he had the solutions. Enough of the blame game and Jonathan’s bashing. Even if you must be against him, it is morally reprehensible. Ogbu, a social analyst, writes from Port Harcourt.

topics like this don't really make it to the FP,urs such a pity

ceejayluv:

guy, which one be ur own na....?

Lol dem don catch am

theshadyexpress:
topics like this don't really make it to the FP,urs such a pity

Just talk say you want make your topic enter front page make we know.
Keneking call lalatiscala for am.....

Hmmmm

baybeeboi:


Him own be say make dem send you on cumpulsory business leave

Kikikiki wicked

Kyase:

Just talk say you want make your topic enter front page make we know.
Keneking call lalatiscala for am.....

if my protest against the biasness of the mods as regards the reporting of news involving the opposition doesn't suit you then be my guest

Metuh admits receiving N400m from office of NSA


The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, has admitted to receiving money from the office of the National Security Adviser.
It was gathered that Metuh had admitted the transfer of N400million into a company in which he has substantial interest. The company is believed to be Destra Investment Limited.
According to a source who spoke to The Nation, “So far, Metuh has admitted the transfer of N400 million by ONSA into a company in which he has substantial interest.

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2016/01/11/metuh-admits-receiving-n400m-from-office-of-nsa/

Even thought the thief himself don agree say the money came from NSA? Is NSA money no longer government money...


Awon ole oshi buruku...

aresssa:




Even thought the thief himself don agree say the money came from NSA? Is NSA money no longer government money...


Awon ole oshi buruku...

And you accepted a statement without confirmation because EFCC/DSS said so?

The witnesses testifying before the court are under oath and as such their statements are more credible because they are verifiable and liable to cross examination.

LadyExcellency:


And you accepted a statement without confirmation because EFCC/DSS said so?

The witnesses testifying before the court are under oath and as such their statements are more credible because they are verifiable and liable to cross examination.

1. Of what relevance is witness testimony in the presence of prosecutorial and documentary evidence showing where the funds came from and in whose account the funds landed?

2. Metuh and his lawyers were show concrete proof stating where the funds came from and till this very second, Metuh and his lawyers are yet to dispute this fact.

3. When confronted with facts showing Metuh and his lawyers where the funds came from, both Metuh and his lawyer agreed to return the money.

4. Have you asked yourself why the lawyer representing Metuh agreed to and advised his client to return the funds without convincing proof showing where the funds came from? This fact alone decimated your weak and irrelevant witness argument.


4.It was however while in court that a document was brought regarding the source of the money and since then, our Metuh has made manifest his willingness to refund the money and has indeed approached his family, friends and associates to mobilise funds to refund the entire N400 million to the government.

5.And that Metuh has been in talks with the Ministry of Justice, the EFCC and other necessary bodies on how to refund the money and resolve the issue since then.

6.That, his refunding the money, therefore, goes to show his support for the anti-corruption war as well as serve as a testament to his sincerity, integrity and honesty in this matter.

http://www.informationng.com/2016/06/olisa-metuh-has-offered-to-return-n400m-recieved-from-ex-nsa-dasuki.html

Find something better to argue over abeg..

aresssa:




1. Of what relevance is witness testimony in the presence of prosecutorial and documentary evidence showing where the funds came from and in whose account the funds landed?

2. Metuh and his lawyers were show concrete proof stating where the funds came from and till this very second, Metuh and his lawyers are yet to dispute this fact.

3. When confronted with facts showing Metuh and his lawyers where the funds came from, both Metuh and his lawyer agreed to return the money.






Find something better to argue over abeg..

All these junks you quoted are just all lies from the stables of DSS/EFCC media prosecutors hence null and void.

These are the same sources that got billions of dollars from Akwaibom State Government's house which turns out to be the eighth wonder-lie of 2015.

If you've any video evidence, paste the link for a direct speech from the conversion between Metu, his Lawyers and the Prosecutor.