BEVERLY HILLS, July 11, (THEWILL) – Nigeria’s former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has alleged that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, was sending assassins after her, disclosing that she has survived no fewer than two assassination attempt between February and April this year.
Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s wife made this claim in a letter written by her lawyers, Granville Abibo SAN & Co, wherein she begged the House of Representatives to intervene before the EFCC succeeds in the purported plot to eliminate her.
She stated that aside her bank accounts, the EFCC has frozen those of her relatives and her non-governmental organisations,
NGOs, which she said were only carrying out charity work for the benefit of Nigerians. The properties of the NGOs, according to her, were also confiscated.
The letter 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.
“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.”
