The Aridolf hotel in Yenagoa that is Allegedly Owned By First Lady Patience Jonathan is an unlikely monument to kitsch on a reclaimed swamp in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger delta……

The Aridolf hotel in Yenagoa is an unlikely monument to kitsch on a reclaimed swamp in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger delta. In the lobby, Louis XIV furniture is accompanied by bowls of plastic fruit, faux Dutch landscapes and a grotesquely gaudy chandelier. The hotel Is redolent of the riches on display in a region that for half a century has generated the bulk of Nigeria’s wealth.

Only a decade and-a-half ago there was just one petrol pu mp in Bayelsa state, which produced a quarter of Nigeria’s 2m barrels per day of oil, and Yenagoa, the state capital, was a string of tin-roofed shacks. Resentment at the region’s under-development erupted in violence, with militants blowing up pipelines
and kidnapping oil workers.

Today, Yenagoa is a sprawling construction site. But the Aridolf, which is owned by Patience Jonathan, wife of the outgoing
president, is symptomatic of how superficial progress has been in addressing the festering sense of marginalisation in the region, which remains desperately impoverished despite benefi ting from a tide of petrodollars in recent years.

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Looks more like a boxy small size mall than a hotel.

Where our money was poured into..EFCC probe her or will she kill them with blunders

you people should allow the family of GEJ to rest from media atleast.the media almost killed his son last week.

Beautiful!

In as much as i'm a Buhari supporter, I see nothing wrong with the this, for God's sake let the ex-first family be! I have seen bigger structures owned by MERE COMMISSIONERS


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i dont belive u OP. How can a man without no shoe build such an edifice.

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At least the hotel will give employment to some of our youth who roam the street daily looking for jobs unlike some people who will use the money to fvck biachets in America.

Una no go kuku dis woman and her husband,iif dem shit,una go talk,dem chop fufu,una go hala!,wetin nw?

I just know that the link to the first lady wouldn't be established. Why is "allegedly" not included in your topic?

Was expecting a massive structure;good start anyway

The name is a combination of 'Ariwera and Adolphus'
Someone should tell Faka that we pardon her sins

This is nothing comapare to the amount of wealth and properties Shepopotemus stole took from our country during the reign of her husband.!!!

benosky:
i dont belive u OP. How can a man without no shoe build such an edifice.

donholy28:
Where our money was poured into..EFCC probe her or will she kill them with blunders

let them start with Obj.

I hope Biafra war mongers can read this, Ask Dame for your oyil money