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urboy1:
really, Egift.. what do I care?? I get papers for days... If you want to remain blind...feel free.. Ambrose Ali yourself.. if you get it wrong.. your generations will never forgive you...
If Osinbajo is there to decieve the crowd using the Church name AND GOD.. we will know that God cannot be mocked... at the end of the day.. His will will be done...

Unknown to Nigerians, the wife of the current president was caught twice by the EFCC while Goodluck Joanthan was governor of Bayelsa state, attempting to launder a total sum of $13,650,000.

This was re-exposed by a new Nigerian website for crime, the Nigerian Criminal Database.

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Patience Jonathan

Date Caught: September 11, 2006

Trade/Profession: President’s Wife

City: Abuja State: Abuja (FCT)

Case Status: Impunity

Listed: April 12, 2014 5:02 am

Expires: 999997 days, 22 hours

Description

EFCC seizes N104m from Bayelsa governor’s wife

By Punch, Monday, 11 Sep 2006

About N104m allegedly laundered by Patience, wife of Bayelsa State Governor, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has been temporarily seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commision. The seizure came on the heels of an ex parte application before a Federal High Court, Abuja by the Chairman of the EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu. The commission had in the application, a copy of which was obtained by our correspondents on Sunday, said it suspected that the N104m was public money. It said that Patience laundered the sum in two tranches – N70m and N34m – through one Mrs. Nancy Ebere Nwosu. Nwosu, a business associate of Patience, is said to have made statements to the EFCC incriminating the governor`s wife.

UPDATE: Alleged fraud: I’ll cooperate with EFCC – Jonathan

September 13, 2006: The Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Jonathan Goodluck, on Tuesday said he would cooperate with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to unravel the mystery surrounding the alleged laundering of N104m to which his wife, Patience, has been linked.

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CASE 2:

$13,000,000: On September 11, 2006, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) seized $13.5 million dollars (US) from Mrs. Patience Jonathan, the wife of then Governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Goodluck Jonathan.

The International Herald Tribune quoted the EFCC spokesman, Mr. Osita Nwajah, as saying that the seizure was made after Mrs. Jonathan had allegedly laundered the money through an associate.

It was the second time in one month Mrs. Jonathan was hitting the scandal headlines. In August, the EFCC had obtained a court order to temporarily freeze N104 million she had allegedly tried to launder through one Mrs. Nancy Ebere Nwosu. The EFCC said it had reason to believe the seized funds belonged to the public. In a sworn statement, Mrs. Nwosu implicated Patience Jonathan, the EFCC said.

But remember, her husband was the Bayelsa State Governor at the time. And Mr. Jonathan’s government dashed to the defence of the First Lady of Bayelsa, alleging that the reports were part of a “plot to destabilize” the state. Government spokesmen were falling over each other to speak for Mrs. Jonathan. The Governor’s spokesman, Dennis Sami, described the allegations as a “charade,” the target of which the Governor.

UPDATE; July 18, 2011

CAGIL Sues EFCC Over Patience Jonathan’s Laundering/Fraud By Nigeria2Day Online A civil society group, Coalition Against Impunity and Illegality (CAGIL) says it will continue with its suit against the EFCC for refusing to and bring to justice, the First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, over allegation of money laundering to the tune of $12.5 million (about N1.9 billion).

The suit, which was filed at a Federal High Court in Lagos is praying for an order of Mandamus, compelling the EFCC to either prosecute the First Lady or make an official clarification on the allegation. Filed by the law firm of Rhaman Senge, under Order 34 Rules 1 and 3 of the Federal High Court Procedure Rule 209, the suit wants the court to declare that refusal or failure of the EFCC to act by prosecuting the First Lady is abdication of its public duty, imposed on it by Sections 6 & 7 of EFCC Act of 2004. According to CAGIL, the anti-graft agency had publicly declared on September 11, 2006, via its then spokesman, Osita Nwajah, that Mrs. Jonathan, who was then the First Lady of Bayelsa State, was nabbed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, while attempting to smuggle out a whopping $12.5million.

The EFCC then claimed that it immediately impounded the money, while adding that another sum of N104 million was traced to her foreign account, which the commission believed was far beyond her legitimate earnings as at the time.

CAGIL wondered why the story was ended just like that, regretting that Nigerians who eagerly expected justice in the case had waited in vain for more than four years. “It is not on record that the EFCC took further actions on those startling revelations. At least, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, to public knowledge, was never subjected to any legal actions. Are we in a country where some are more equal than others?,” CAGIL asked.

The group went further to state that: “The First Lady has no constitutional immunity. She should be given the opportunity to defend herself. We seek a comprehensive legal action on this matter and call on the EFCC to take necessary steps to recover the money traced to her foreign account to the coffers of the Federal Government or Bayelsa State, if that is where it belongs without delay and make the First Lady face justice, if found culpable,” the body insisted.

The group’s General Secretary, Comrade Mark Adebayo, said CAGIL deliberately allowed the April General elections to be successfully completed before taking up the First Lady’s case because the body does not want to be misconstrued and labeled as working for the opposition.

He explained that since President Goodluck Jonathan has not shown that he is influencing the anti-graft bodies in the performance of their duties, it behooves the EFCC not to leave any room for suspicion. The civil society group had earlier on June 27 petitioned the EFCC not only on the First Lady’s case but also on the commission’s foot-dragging in recovering from prominent Nigerians the N40billion looted funds of the defunct national carrier, the Nigeria Airways Limited (NAL).

“The Nigeria Airways was the safest national carrier in Africa in the 1970s-80s but a combination of mindless corruption mal-administration and policy misdirection led to its collapse prompting the former President Olusegun Obasanjo to institute in 2000 a seven members probe panel led by retired Justice Obiora Nwazota to look into its demise and recommend appropriate sanction. Findings of the Justice Nwazota panel which were accepted by the government was scandalously shocking as its revealed that a whopping total of $254,257,529.65 million; £1,792,796.72 million and N548,380,248,38 million (totaling N39,045,569,039,88 billion ) was looted from the NAL through tax fraud, contract inflation, ticketing scam, fake projects, commissions scam, fake premiums, bonds and loans; misappropriation and outright stealing. The panel also recommended the swift recovery of all the stolen money of NAL and criminal prosecution of those indicted.
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makzeze:
I wonder why anywhere PDP goes for campaign or on the media t[b]hey keep talking about Buhari.[/b] From age issue to certificate to his time as military head of state to his religious extremism to issue of analogue to analogue and now VP Sambo's APC is Christian dominated party and Buhari is party to that meaning he is hypocrite decieving northern muslims.

My question now is: is Buhari the PDP's agenda for Nigeria if it wins re-election this month?

The family of former Nigerian President Shehu Shagari has refuted a story that Mr. Shagari has endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan.

In a statement released by one of the ex-president’s sons, Muhammad Bala Shagari, the family reacted to a spurious report by a pro-Jonathan newspaper that claimed that Mr. Shagari had endorsed the incumbent president and condemned Muhammadu Buhari’s candidature as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

“I'd like to inform the general public and concerned citizens of this country that the speech that was credited to His Excellency Alhaji Shehu Shagari, GCFR (Turakin Sokoto) by some media agencies and online news blogs in which His Excellency was reported to have endorsed President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and commending his government for some achievements is nothing but a blatant lie. And we've condemned it in strong terms,” said the former president’s son.

He added: “It is pertinent to note that Alhaji Shehu Shagari is not a card-carrying member of any political party neither [does he] support the candidature of any politician. Alhaji Shehu Shagari was for long retired from partisan politics, he's known for his proven integrity and [reputation as a] distinguished nationalist and elder statesman who treats every Nigerian/politician equally irrespective of his/her political party, tribe, ethnicity or religion.

“Therefore Alhaji Shehu Shagari has never ever issued any press statement [or granted] audience [to] any media agency to comment on the forthcoming elections or to speak of any politician, be it president or not.

“We therefore urge the general public to regard such publication as mere fabrications and concoctions aimed to tarnish the good image of Alhaji Shehu Shagari.”


SOURCE: http://saharareporters.com/2015/01/20/shagari-denies-endorsing-jonathan

tit:
to you now,
afterall shekau is a apc member

ILIDEFI:
Bros, just try and be realistic. If 30 trillion got missing in 4 years of GEJ, how much was missing in 8 years of Obj? If Nigeria could have made an extra crude sales of 30 trillion in 4years which was stolen, that means they probably made extra 60 trillion under Obj, which was equally stolen. Or was there up to 60 trillion naira in our excess crude account at the expiration of Obj's tenure? Guy, think!

foxxynik:
How will someone accused u of stealing his shoes when he hasn't seen u with the shoe or with another person that claimed u sold it to him?... Fact is that.... There MUST be evidence!...
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You're telling us that...this days...people will just wake up and accuse others of looting the federal govt money without evidence?
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Assuming, tomorow one politician accuse Buhari of something he never did....won't u ask for evidence?

boytie:
Soludo should come up with concrete evidence. He cant just come up with outrageous allegations without proofs. Anybody with evil intent of blackmailing the PDP administration can as well come up with unsubstantiated allegations. That's how Sanusi kept giving dillydallying about the subsidy fraud amount. Anything just to paint PDP in a bad light would do for these hungry APC economists

Zellie:
Bokoharam endorsed Buhari

kaycid77:
So you are this shallow....you mean this is OIC meeting with only two head of states.... Egypt and Nigeria?

anonimi:
Stop telling LIES that are so easy to puncture

Five months later =>

pekeyim:
I'm saying this is the handy work of APC close to the election to deceive "Gullible" Nigerians.
Like someone clearly said. If money is missing in the creeks, why are you calling Okonjo Iweala into it? Abeg na she dey Sell Oil for water ways for Niger Delta.?

KEVIND:
And besides you can't spend any money that is not approve by the national assembley. And the National assembly is made up of PDP,APC & others.

pekeyim:
Daily crude oil production in Nigeria is about 2 million!

KEVIND:
How much is the total revenue of Nigeria for 4yrs?

KEVIND:
Nigeria didn't make that amount in 4yrs.

yerimastyle:
the same way cossy campaigned for buhari

Sanchez01:
By everyone, you mean herbalists, thugs/touts, thieving pastors and this old lady, shey