Minister of Information and Culture, Lai
Mohammed, has said the Federal
Government is not persecuting former
President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife
Patience. Reacting to reports of $15 million
found in an account owned by Patience
Jonathan, Lai Mohammed said it will be
wrong for anyone to claim that the Federal
government was probing the former first
family as it was Patience Jonathan herself
who came out to claim the foreign currency
found in a strange account operated by a
former aide of Jonathan.
He said this in an interview with journalists
in Oro, Kwara State yesterday tuesday
September 13th.
“If you look at the history of Mrs.
Patience Jonathan’s issue, I think she
was the one that came out to claim
that the money found in the accounts
of one of the aides to the former
President, her husband, belonged to
her. It was not the EFCC that claimed
so. She claimed that the money that
the guy was being prosecuted for
belonged to her. It was only then they
later found an extra $5m in another
account. It is not as if anybody has
gone out to probe Mrs. Jonathan
directly or indirectly. Rather Mrs.
Jonathan was the one that said ‘that
money for which you are accusing Mr.
X actually belongs to me. So, you
cannot start talking of prosecution or
persecution”he said
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