{"id":18533,"date":"2017-10-25T11:22:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T10:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=18533"},"modified":"2017-10-25T11:22:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T10:22:09","slug":"metuhs-trial-jonathan-fails-appear-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/metuhs-trial-jonathan-fails-appear-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Metuh\u2019s Trial: Jonathan Fails To Appear In Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nigeria\u2019s former President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has failed to appear before Justice Okon Abang Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The court which begins sitting in the case of money laundering between Nigeria\u2019s Federal Government and\u00a0the former National Publicity Secretary of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Olisa Metuh had wanted the former President to appear as a witness.<\/p>\n

Metuh had had a running battle with the law over a money laundry case since his former ruling party failed to win the last presidential election.<\/p>\n

The Federal High Court had\u00a0earlier ordered Jonathan to appear before it Wednesday to testify in defence of Metuh but the former leader failed to appear.<\/p>\n

The court however struck out the application filed by Colonel Sambo Dasuki (Retd), who wants the court to set aside the order compelling him to appear before it as a defence witness.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Justice Abang in his ruling struck out the application saying that the court lacks jurisdiction to entertain the application and that Dasuki is not a party in the case before him.<\/p>

\r\n
Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n

According to the court, entertaining the application will amount to an invitation to judicial anarchy.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Registrar of the Court has informed the court that the bailiff is yet to serve\u00a0the former President with the order of the court.<\/p>\n

Metuh is facing trial for allegedly receiving N400 million out of the $2.1 billion dollars arms fund from the former National Security Adviser to Jonathan, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (Retd)<\/p>\n

Counsel to Olisa Metuh, Onyechi Ikpeazu earlier told the court that he would subpoena Jonathan as his defence witness during a session at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday.<\/p>\n

Dr. Goodluck Jonathan became an acting President while former President Umaru Yar\u2019Adua took ill and later was sworn in as substantive President after Yar\u2019Adua\u2019s demise. He contested the 2010 election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party and won but failed to win a reelection in the 2015 presidential election<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nigeria\u2019s former President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has failed to appear before Justice Okon Abang Wednesday. The court which begins sitting in the case of money laundering between Nigeria\u2019s Federal Government and\u00a0the former National Publicity Secretary of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Olisa Metuh had wanted the former President to appear as a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":10287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,624],"tags":[926,3114,3113,290],"coauthors":[2393],"class_list":["post-18533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-politics","tag-jonathan","tag-okon-abang","tag-olisa-metuh","tag-sambo-dasuki"],"yoast_head":"\nMetuh\u2019s Trial: Jonathan Fails To Appear In Court - National Wire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nigeria\u2019s former President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has failed to appear before Justice Okon Abang Wednesday\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/metuhs-trial-jonathan-fails-appear-court\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Metuh\u2019s Trial: Jonathan Fails To Appear In Court - National Wire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nigeria\u2019s former President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has failed to appear before Justice Okon Abang Wednesday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/metuhs-trial-jonathan-fails-appear-court\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"National Wire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-10-25T10:22:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Jonathan-Goodluck.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"360\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"225\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dayo Emmanuel\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/\",\"name\":\"National Wire\",\"description\":\"About Nigerians, Nigerian Business and Other Stories\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/metuhs-trial-jonathan-fails-appear-court\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Jonathan-Goodluck.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Jonathan-Goodluck.jpg\",\"width\":360,\"height\":225},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/metuhs-trial-jonathan-fails-appear-court\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/metuhs-trial-jonathan-fails-appear-court\/\",\"name\":\"Metuh\u2019s Trial: Jonathan Fails To Appear In Court - National Wire\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/metuhs-trial-jonathan-fails-appear-court\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-10-25T10:22:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-10-25T10:22:09+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#\/schema\/person\/806673c5851717dc3067b1a46a6c060f\"},\"description\":\"Nigeria\u2019s former President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has failed to appear before Justice Okon Abang Wednesday\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/metuhs-trial-jonathan-fails-appear-court\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/metuhs-trial-jonathan-fails-appear-court\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/metuhs-trial-jonathan-fails-appear-court\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Metuh\u2019s Trial: Jonathan Fails To Appear In Court\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#\/schema\/person\/806673c5851717dc3067b1a46a6c060f\",\"name\":\"Dayo Emmanuel\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/author\/dayo\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Metuh\u2019s Trial: Jonathan Fails To Appear In Court - National Wire","description":"Nigeria\u2019s former President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has failed to appear before Justice Okon Abang Wednesday","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/metuhs-trial-jonathan-fails-appear-court\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Metuh\u2019s Trial: Jonathan Fails To Appear In Court - National Wire","og_description":"Nigeria\u2019s former President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has failed to appear before Justice Okon Abang Wednesday","og_url":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/metuhs-trial-jonathan-fails-appear-court\/","og_site_name":"National Wire","article_published_time":"2017-10-25T10:22:09+00:00","og_image":[{"width":360,"height":225,"url":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Jonathan-Goodluck.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Dayo Emmanuel","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#website","url":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/","name":"National Wire","description":"About Nigerians, Nigerian Business and Other Stories","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/metuhs-trial-jonathan-fails-appear-court\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Jonathan-Goodluck.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Jonathan-Goodluck.jpg","width":360,"height":225},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/metuhs-trial-jonathan-fails-appear-court\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/metuhs-trial-jonathan-fails-appear-court\/","name":"Metuh\u2019s Trial: Jonathan Fails To Appear In Court - National Wire","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/metuhs-trial-jonathan-fails-appear-court\/#primaryimage"},"datePublished":"2017-10-25T10:22:09+00:00","dateModified":"2017-10-25T10:22:09+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#\/schema\/person\/806673c5851717dc3067b1a46a6c060f"},"description":"Nigeria\u2019s former President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has failed to appear before Justice Okon Abang Wednesday","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/metuhs-trial-jonathan-fails-appear-court\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/metuhs-trial-jonathan-fails-appear-court\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/metuhs-trial-jonathan-fails-appear-court\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Metuh\u2019s Trial: Jonathan Fails To Appear In Court"}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#\/schema\/person\/806673c5851717dc3067b1a46a6c060f","name":"Dayo Emmanuel","url":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/author\/dayo\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18536,"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18533\/revisions\/18536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18533"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}