Patience Jonathan Denies Link With Companies That Pleaded Guilty

Former President Goodluck
Jonathan’s wife, Patience, today denied
allegations that her accounts were used to launder
huge sums.
In a statement by her media aide, Yemi Akinbode,
Mrs Jonathan said she was constrained to
respond to “tissues of lies being churned out” by
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC).
The statement said: “That Mrs. Patience Ibifaka
Jonathan is laying claim to ownership of a
whopping sum of $31.7 million dollars fund
recovered by EFCC is a complete fallacy. Mrs.
Jonathan does not own and has never owned
such amount of money. The reason for this lie is
best known to the EFCC.
“That another sum of $20 million dollars has been
traced to Mrs. Patience Ibifaka Jonathan, is again,
another falsehood aimed at hoodwinking the
public against Mrs. Jonathan. That a further sum
of $5 million dollars has again being traced to
another account of Mrs. Patience Jonathan. This
is also a fallacy. Continue…
“That Mrs. Patience Jonathan opened accounts in
the names of cooks, drivers and artisans. This is
perhaps the biggest falsehood to the knowledge
of EFCC.”
The former First Lady picked holes in the
authenticity of the representatives of the four
companies who pleaded guilty to charges of
money laundering.
Her lawyer, Gboyega Oyewole, said she would
appeal the validity of the representatives of Pluto
Property and Investment Company Limited,
Seagate Property Development and Investment
Company Limited, Trans Ocean Property and
Investment Company Limited and Avalon Global
Property Development Company Limited.
The former First Lady’s counsel alleged that the
prosecution presented four unknown people as the
companies’ representatives, all of whom he said
did not show letters authorising them by their
respective boards to represent them in the case.
“This is a clear evidence of the desperation of the
prosecution to pull down the former First Lady
and confiscate her hard-earned money,” the
statement quoted Oyewole as saying.
Mrs Jonathan was quoted as saying that EFCC was
bent on denting her image and trampling on her
fundamental human rights.