Patience Jonathan: The $15m Were Gifts From Friends And Well-wishers Over The Last 15 Years Which I Saved

Wife of former Nigerian President, Patience
Jonathan has explained in details how she
accumulated in 15 years over $15million in bank
accounts linked to her by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission.
The detail was given in court papers filed by Union
of Niger Delta Youth Organisation for Equity, Justice
and Good Governance on behalf of the former First
Lady, against the Socio-Economic Rights and
Accountability Project (SERAP) .
The suit with number FHC/L/CS/1349/2016 before a
Federal High Court in Lagos, accuses SERAP of
using online, print and electronic media to publish to
the public unfounded and malicious allegations that
she stole $15m (US), urging for her prosecution.
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“The funds in question were legitimate
gifts from her friends and well-wishers
over the last 15 years which she had
been saving in order to utilize to
upgrade family businesses and
concerns which had been somewhat
dormant by reason of the long period
of her husband service as a public
officer in Nigeria.
“The gifts were given in small
contributions by several persons some
of whom she cannot even now recall
over this period of 15 years sometimes
in as small a gift as N250,000 Naira. In
order to preserve the value of these
funds which she did not require for
any purpose at the time she changed
them into foreign exchange and kept
them as cash for a long period in her
home safe in Port Harcourt and Abuja.
“It was when the family home in
Otuoke was burnt down by hoodlums
under the instigation of political
adversaries in 2010 that she began to
think about banking these gifts which
had now grown to large sums in United
States Dollars. In 2010 she therefore
summoned one of her husband’s
domestic aides, Waripamo-Owei
Emmanuel Dudafa to assist her in
opening bank accounts into which the
funds could be deposited
“Unknown to her the said Dudafa in a
bid to be discreet about the owner of
the funds decided to bank the funds in
the names of companies owned by him.
When she discovered this she was
constrained to continue with the names
of the companies when she was advised
that it did not make any difference as
to the ownership of the funds since the
director of the company would appoint
her as sole signatory to the accounts in
question
“When in 2016 Dudafa was arrested
and detained she had no fear for the
funds as she realized that the funds
could not be attributable to him once it
was discovered that she was the sole
signatory to the said accounts. It was
therefore a rude shock to her when she
discovered that a no transaction order
had been placed on the accounts by the
EFCC in the belief that the funds
belonged to Dudafa.
“She instructed her solicitors to
further write to the EFCC to inform
them that the funds belong to her and
that they formed a part of her
legitimate earnings over the last 15
years. It was this letter that was leaked
by the EFCC to the media that became
sensationalised and led to the
plaintiff’s vilification and attack by
ignorant persons who had no
information about the matter
“SERAP is playing to the public gallery
in order to gain the notoriety it has
achieved over the past years. SERAP
has done this mostly by intervening in
high profile issues without regard to
the rights of persons it claims to
protect. SERAP jumped into the fray of
ignorant accusations being made
against Mrs Dame Patience Jonathan
in the public media and has begun a
campaign of calumny against her using
online, print and electronic media to
publish to the public unfounded and
malicious allegations that she stole the
funds in question and ought to be
prosecuted.”.

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