Nigeria: Metuh - APC's Smear Campaign Was Injurious to Jonathan's Image - Witness

24 May 2016

Abuja — A fourth defence witness (DW4) in the ongoing trial of the erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh, Mr. Antony Okeke, yesterday told a Federal High Court in Abuja that the 'smear campaign' of the then opposition party, All Progressives Congress (APC), injured the image of former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, badly.

The witness, a lawyer and a former acting National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, who handed over to Metuh in September 2013, told the court at the resumed trial that it was not surprising for him to learn that the sum of N400 million was authorised by President Jonathan to counter the opposition campaign.

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