The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has nullified the conviction and seven years jail term clamped on a former spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh.

A three-man panel of the court led by Justice Stephen Adah in a unanimous judgment held that the proceedings of the Federal High Court leading to the conviction of Metuh and his company, Destra Investment Limited, were tainted with bias and therefore must not be allowed to stand.

Justice Adah, who delivered the lead judgment, held that the utterances of the trial judge, Justice Okon Abang, in the course of the trial, established that he was biased against the convict.

The Appellate Court, therefore, ordered that the trial be conducted afresh under another trial judge.

Justice Abang had in his judgment delivered on February 25, sentenced Metuh to seven years imprisonment for fraudulently receiving N400 million from the office of the then National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retired).