Former first lady, Patience Jonathan, has
written a letter to the EFCC explaining how
$15 million entered her account. In a letter
with reference number GA/
Abibo/00226/2016, written by her lawyers,
Granville Abibo (SAN) and Co, and addressed
to the Acting Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim
Magu, the former first lady said the $15
million which has been seized by the
antigraft agency, was for her medical bills
and other personal expenses.
Former first lady, Patience Jonathan, has
written a letter to the EFCC explaining how
$15 million entered her account. In a letter
with reference number GA/
Abibo/00226/2016, written by her lawyers,
Granville Abibo (SAN) and Co, and addressed
to the Acting Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim
Magu, the former first lady said the $15
million which has been seized by the
antigraft agency, was for her medical bills
and other personal expenses.
"It is noteworthy to emphasise that
the said accounts, which were in US
dollar denomination, were card-based
accounts and our client is the sole
signatory to these accounts. However,
our client has been operating the said
accounts using the cards for her
medical bill payments and purchases
for her private purposes without any
let or hindrance. Our client was
therefore surprised when the said
cards stop functioning on July 7,
2016, or thereabout. Our client
immediately, thereupon, contacted
Skye Bank Plc through our solicitors.
It was only then that the bank
officials informed our client that the
said accounts were placed on a ‘No
Debit Order’ following investigations
and instruction from your commission
and this is without notice to our client
by either the bank or the commission.
It is in the light of the foregoing that
we urge you to use your good offices
to vacate the ‘No Debit/Freezing
Order’ placed on the said accounts.”
Patience in the letter stated that the
operatives of the antigraft agency have
refused to acknowledge her explanation
“Despite the foregoing, our client, who
is a law-abiding citizen, has watched
with surprise how efforts are being
made surreptitiously to indirectly
harass or harangue her and short-
change her of her personal funds in
breach of her fundamental human
rights. We urge you sir, to kindly
intervene to stop the untoward and
wrongful actions of your officials to
embarrass, inconvenience and short-
change our client.”the letter said
Patience Jonathan during her husband's time
in office had seven surgeries within a month
for an undisclosed ailment in Germany.
During a thanksgiving service in February
2013, she revealed that she lost
consciousness for a week during one of her
surgeries.
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