Former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh, has revealed that President Bola Tinubu once pleaded with him to defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Olisa Metuh recounted that Tinubu enlisted his Chief of Staff—who was then the Speaker of the House of Representatives—Femi Gbajabiamila, to persuade him to join the APC.
Speaking to journalists in Abuja, Olisa Metuh stated that the president repeatedly encouraged him to join the ruling party and work with him, but he declined those requests at the time.
He said: “In the middle of my problem, he sent the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, to come and see me. He reached out to me; he comforted me.
“It took me a long time to get involved in politics. I’ve been called several times. The president wanted to work with me. Even in 2015, when we lost the election, I didn’t bother. He reached out to me again.
“When I left politics in 2022, he called me to come into his party. I refused. After he won the election, I went to see him. He called me to enter the party that he needed me. I refused because I stopped politics.”
Metuh was tried and jailed over his involvement in the diversion of funds meant to fight Boko Haram insurgents in 2015.
His alleged involvement in Dasukigate led to his imprisonment.
Metuh was accused of receiving N400 million from the Office of the then National Security Adviser, ONSA under Sambo Dasuki leadership.
Olisa Metuh was convicted over his inability to prove that the money he allegedly collected through his companies were meant to prosecute former President Goodluck Jonathan’s election.
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