Why Olisa Metuh is target, PDP
The National Publi-city Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday deplored what he called incessant and unnecessary attacks on his person by political opponents.
He claimed that he was being targeted with a view to forcing him to abandon his statutory function as the mouthpiece of the party.
But he vowed to remain undeterred as he “is now, more than ever before, determined to ensure that PDP provides robust and credible opposition, which is inevitable to further grow our democracy.”
Metuh’s Special Assistant, Richard Ihediwa, said in a statement that “credible intelligence available to us has shown that apart from instigating some unsuspecting persons within our party to peddle lies and insults against Chief Metuh, there is a well-coordinated assault by anti-PDP forces who have engaged heavily paid consultants masquerading as writers and columnists, in addition to social media hirelings, some of who use pseudonyms to attack him for daring to speak out against the undemocratic actions and tendencies of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led administration.”
Ihediwa added: “While the National Publicity Secretary is fully aware of the challenges that come with his new role of providing firm, issue-based opposition, we decry the resort to dirty politics by the anti-PDP forces, instead of focusing on the issues, as not only shameful but also a despicable act of cowardice.”
He said that even after the PDP Workers Welfare Association has apologised over allegations it made against the PDP National Working Committee, and particularly himself, “the anti-PDP elements, shamed by that development, are still relentless in their unholy enterprise against the National Publicity Secretary and other leaders of the party.”
Metuh denied receiving “any money or monies from the immediate past President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan before, during or after the 2015 campaigns for media and publicity functions or for any other reason whatsoever.”
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