On April 17, 2026, Olisa Metuh was appointed Director of Pro-Tinubu campaign. Metuh was former spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
WITHIN NIGERIA gathered that Metuh, has been appointed into the Directorate of the Renewed Hope Ambassadors (RHA), an initiative working for the reelection of President Bola Tinubu.
In any case, the Director General and National Coordinator of RHA, Governor Hope Uzodimma, announced the appointment of Metuh and other directors, on Friday.
In a statement announcing the appointments, Tunde Rahman, Director, Media & Publicity of RHA, said, “President Bola Tinubu had in November 2025 designed the RHA as the vehicle to disseminate the activities and achievements of the Renewed Hope Agenda of the administration to every part of the country in a build-up to the 2027 election campaign.”
RHA has Senator Uba Sani, Governor of Kaduna State, as Deputy Director General, Mohammed Inuwa, Governor of Gombe State, as Secretary and Hon. James Abiodun Faleke as Deputy Secretary.
The RHA structure contains six Zonal Coordinators, 37 State Coordinators and 774 Local Coordinators.
Many things you don’t know about Olisah Metuh
WITHIN NIGERIA presents many things you probably don’t know about Olisah Metuh.
Early life and career
Metuh was born at Otolo Nnewi North in Anambra State.
He obtained a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Enugu state. After his Law School, he was called to Nigerian Bar in 1988.
However, he began his law career at Olisianunba Chambers, a law firm owned by his father. In 1990, he established a partnership firm called Metuh, Okafor & Associates, where he served as the managing solicitor.
In 1991, he was appointed as the chairman of Legend Properties Limited, a property management firm.
He later registered as an investment adviser with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
In 1996, he established a law firm, Olisa Metuh and Co., to provide services in legal practice, real estate and share acquisitions.
His Political life
Olisa Metuh began his political career as the coordinator of the Igbo United Congress. While serving in that capacity, he was also a member of the finance committee of People’s National Forum (PNF).
He served as a pioneer member of the national finance committee of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.
In November 1999, at the first National Convention of the PDP, he was elected as ex officio member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party.
He later acted as the secretary of the National Peace and Reconciliatory Committee of the party for two years.
In 2002, he was appointed as the chairman of the Cross River State electoral panel.
In 2007, he was appointed as national auditor and member of the party’s National Working Committee(NWC).
Later, he was elected as the national vice chairman of the party for the Southeast zone.
He served as the national publicity secretary of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP between 2013 and 2015, when the party lost federal power to the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC.
Metuh’s arrest, conviction and release
On 5 January 2016, Metuh was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC answering questions regarding some funds (arms deal) said to have been traced to his firm.
“From the records, Metuh got over N400 million, he has not said anything because we need the public money to be returned so that it’s going to be used for public good,” Mr. Ibrahim Magu sai during a meeting with online media publishers in Lagos.
On February 25, 2020 federal high court sitting in Abuja had jailed him for 39 years after being convicted of money laundering.
Okon Abang, a judge, had found the former PDP spokesman guilty of the seven-count charge filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) which accused him of illegally receiving N400 million from the office of the national security adviser.
Metuh left the prison in Abuja on December 24, 2020 after ten months in Kuje Prison, Abuja.
His conviction was, however, nullified by a court of appeal on December 16, 2020.
Ruling on an appeal filed by Metuh, the appellate court held that Okon Abang, a judge, exhibited bias in the case of the former PDP spokesman.
“The narrative of the trial judge suggest someone who didn’t enjoy trying the appellant and counsel because he said they were picking on him,” Stephen Adah who read the court’s decision, said.
“He was struggling with the case and even wished that he should be recused out of the case. The influence from this narrative is indisputably to say the least that a trial judge was angered only in his mind that he was wrongly influenced and showed bias against the appellant in this case as this is what manifests from all the outburst, he has infused in his judgment.”
