A former national publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party Olisa Metuh has likened his experience with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission as wrestling with demons.
Metuh was released from Kuje prison in December 2020 after spending 10 months in the correctional facility.
The former PDP spokesman was prosecuted by the EFCC along with his company Destra Investment Limited before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja.
He was charged with seven counts of illegally receiving about N400million from the office of the national security adviser under Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd).
But his seven-year jail term was quashed by the appeal court on the ground that the judge was bias.
On Wednesday, Metuh was received by members of the party in Anambra State amid wild jubilation.
“I have been to the lowest, deepest end of the valley. I have wrestled with the demons. I wrestled with the devils. The Almighty God has saved me. For that, I commit the rest of my life to the service of God and the people,” he said at the PDP secretariat in Awka.
“It is not easy. It is just like being in your house and an armed robber comes to your house; takes away all your earnings, beats you up, violated your wife, dealt with your children and you can’t do anything because he has the gun.
“When we have power, we should know how to use it because there is God in heaven. At the end of the day, all of us will die.”
Metuh thanked the party’s chieftains for standing by him during his trying moment.
