The details of meeting which former Secretary of Government of the Federation, Pius Anyim and former publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh had with President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday has emerged.
Presidency source revealed that the duo met with the president to discuss how two incarcerated prominent Igbo sons, Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Ike Ekweremadu, former deputy senate president, would regain their freedom, SaharaReporters reports.
Ekweremadu, was convicted in the UK for an organ harvesting plot while Kanu detained by Nigeria government on the allegation of state terrorism.
Anyim, who is a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), worked for the APC in Ebonyi State during the last general elections.
Metuh in October 2022 announced his resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and partisan politics.
In a letter dated October 25, 2022, and addressed to the party’s National Chairman, Metuh stated that his decision to leave the party was taken in the course of his recent medical trip abroad.
“Olisa Metuh and Pius Anyim met Tinubu on Wednesday basically to discuss how to free Ekweremadu and Nnamdi Kanu,” one of the presidential sources revealed to SaharaReporters.
The sources noted that the duo understand that Ekweremadu’s case is complex because he is in jail in the United Kingdom but wants the President to commit to the cause nonetheless, believing he can help secure freedom for the former lawmaker as Nigeria’s leader.
Ekweremadu, 60, was in the first week of May jailed in the UK for nine years and eight months for an organ trafficking plot.
His wife, Beatrice, 56, was also jailed for four years and six months due to her “more limited involvement” in the plot, as the court described Ekweremadu as the “driving force throughout” the process.
A medical doctor, Obinna Obeta, 56, also bagged 10 years after the judge found that he had “targeted the potential donor, who was young, poor and vulnerable”.
The prosecutor, Hugh Davies KC, had said the three defendants were guilty of trafficking with ‘the highest level of culpability’.
Meanwhile, Kanu has been in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) in Abuja since June 2021, despite court orders which granted his release and pleas from stakeholders to then President Muhammadu Buhari and incumbent President Tinubu to release him
