Following the absence of the former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh and was not represented in court by any counsel, the Federal High Court in Abuja, handling the N400 million money laundering charge against the former PDP spokesman yesterday, closed his case.
The trial judge, Justice Okon Abang, in a bench ruling on an application by the prosecution counsel, Sylvanus Tahir seeking an order of the court closing the case of the first defendant (Metuh) said the court had adjourned the matter till yesterday for the cross-examination of the 11th Defence witness, Oladeji Bamidele and expressed worry over the absence of the first defendant and his counsel in court.
Abang said the court had, on January 25, 2018 granted Metuh’s application dated January 19, 2018 to call additional seven witnesses to the nine he had already called and ordered that the seven witnesses should be in court at all times to give evidence, as the court will not grant any other adjournment in the matter at the instance of the first defendant.
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