Madam Dame Patience Jonathan, the wife of the former president of
Nigeria has just alleged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
EFCC of plotting to terminate her life.
She claimed the EFCC withheld her phone and has sent assassins after her on two separate occasions.
The letter written by her lawyers, Granville Abibo (SAN) & Co reads:
“There have been assassination attempts, at least twice, between
February and April, 2017, against our client ostensibly by the
operatives of the EFCC along the Yenagoa-Mbaima Road, Bayelsa State, in
furtherance of its unlawful actions against the former first family.”“The EFCC and its agents have repeatedly bugged the personal
telephones of our client and her relations through its many operatives
and has inundated her with numerous threatening calls and text
messages.”
According to her, other government agencies like the Federal Inland Revenue Service have also intimidated her.
“On May 3, 2017,
officials of the FIRS, in a convoy of about 20 trucks and over 70
personnel, raided our client’s NGO – Aridolf Jo Resort Wellness and Spa
Limited – situated at Kpansia Expressway, Bayelsa State, and
orchestrated a massive destruction of personal properties belonging to
our client without any lawful court order or search warrant and caused
mayhem there under the guise of trying to collect unpaid taxes without
following any due process provided by law to do so.”
Meanwhile, the anti-graft agency is yet to react to this fresh allegation from the former first lady of Nigeria.
