The Federal High Court, Abuja, has expressed doubts as to whether the claim of ill health by Olisah Metuh, the embattled former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), is true. “I doubt that he is really ill as he wants the court to believe, if he is, he should have appealed the decisions of the court at the Court of Appeal.”The judge wondered why Metuh appealed decisions of the trial court that had nothing to do with his health but refused to appeal those that dealt directly with his health. Abang held that it seemed there was a hidden agenda by Metuh to present the court as inhuman by filing the same application before the trial court a third time rather than going on appeal. The judge maintained that the defendants ought to know that where a trial court decided a matter, it could not be brought before it again under any guise. The judge said that he could not sit on appeal over his own judgment having already refused an application for the release of Metuh’s passport twice.

Source: Punch April 19, 2018 13:18 UTC