Former President Goodluck Jonathan

A self-professed solicitor to Dame Patience Jonathan, Mr. Charles Ogboli, says the $20m found in the five accounts traced to Patience could have been given to her by her husband, former President Goodluck Jonathan.

He said this on Friday during a breakfast television show titled, ‘Sunrise Daily’ on Channels Television.

Ogboli, who contested for the Delta State governorship election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party in 2014, said Patience had told him about all that transpired, adding that her case was nothing but a witch-hunt.

When asked where Patience could have got the money from, the lawyer said $20m (N8bn) was not too much for a woman whose husband served as a deputy governor, governor, Vice-President and President within a period of 16 years.

Ogboli confirmed an exclusive story by The PUNCH that Patience’s personal account, with a balance of about $5m, which is domiciled in Skye Bank, had been frozen.

He said, “They have gone ahead to put a no debit order on her personal account which is unfair. My question is this: Being a former first lady and being a woman whose husband was the deputy governor of Bayelsa State, thereafter governor, thereafter Vice-President then President, are you now telling me, if we want to go through the figures her husband received in salaries, estacodes and allowances received in all these years, her husband would not be able to give his wife money, even if it is $20m? If we want to fight, let us fight justly.”

Ogboli, who initially claimed to be a human rights activist before later confessing to be an aide to Patience, told the Channels TV presenters that Patience had sometimes in 2013, instructed the then Special Adviser to the President on Domestic Affairs, Waripamowei Dudafa, to open domiciliary accounts for herself and her late mother.

He said Patience was, however, surprised to find out that one account was opened in her name at Skye Bank while four company accounts were opened.

He added that platinum cards were given to Patience with which to make withdrawals.

Ogboli said Patience had instructed Dudafa and the bank to correct the error but they refused to do so for over two years until the accounts were finally frozen by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

The lawyer said, “Her personal name was on first card while the other two cards had her mother’s name. Her mother used two of the accounts for business. The fact is that the names on the cards were supposed to be the names of her mother and herself.”

Ogboli, however, distanced Patience from the threats by a militant group to bomb the NNPC Towers if the restriction on Patience’s account was not lifted.

Meanwhile, the Civil Liberties Organisation has distanced itself from a protest held in Port Harcourt in support of Patience Jonathan, saying the protesters who stormed the Port Harcourt office of the EFCC were not members of CLO.

The CLO said in a statement by its President, Uche Durueke, that it would take steps to unravel those behind the embarrassment and impersonation.

“I hereby assure the bona fide members of the organisation and the public that CLO will not condescend so low to embark on such an infantile protest,” the statement read in part.

He said, “They have gone ahead to put a no debit order on her personal account which is unfair. My question is this: Being a former first lady and being a woman whose husband was the deputy governor of Bayelsa State, thereafter governor, thereafter Vice-President then President, are you now telling me, if we want to go through the figures her husband received in salaries, estacodes and allowances received in all these years, her husband would not be able to give his wife money, even if it is $20m? If we want to fight, let us fight justly.”

Firefire:
ok let the one-sided fight against kworuption continue.

Dambazul

Burantai

And others, please continue to enjoy your loots.

midolian:
Firefire, na wa u o! It seems you don't wnt the best for this country. Let Buhari continue sanitizing the country with his one sided fight against kworuption..his tenure is not for eternity...what I feel you should be praying for is that power should change hands after his tenure elapses(probably after 8yrs)...let the next president do his own one-sided fight....and I tell you, Nigeria will become very clean[/s].

Firefire:
[s]

Buhary should stop disgracing us with this fight against kworuption when evidences has been provided against the people in his own cabinet...

What is EFFC waiting for?

Burantai

Danbazul

SFG

Among others.

This is why I hate APC with passion. Immoral justification and media hullaballoo.

Buhary, start the fight against kworuption within your own cabinet among the newly identified thieves, if you got no liver to prosecute the political class. (Amaechi, Fashole etc)

However, my prayers have not changed.

- May all looters of our common wealth NEVER find peace in the life and in the life to come everlasting.

- May all who benefited from this loots be strike with various forms of incurable sicknesses never known to human race.

Unless they return our loots in their custody.

Thank you.

midolian:
Beht if your GEJ had done a one-sided fight too, with Buhari doing his now, everything for don balance now

Stop speaking dogon turenchi, my brother

Firefire:



Sorry! Jonathan is a bygone.

Good morning.

midolian:
bygone kor, bywent ni!

Not after all the "ever-surfacing" attrocities he has committed. We can't stop mentioning the hatman bacause whenever we mention a crime, the crime mentions his name.

Firefire:
[s]

Buhary should stop disgracing us with this fight against kworuption when evidences has been provided against the people in his own cabinet...

What is EFFC waiting for?

Burantai

Danbazul

SFG

Among others.

This is why I hate APC with passion. Immoral justification and media hullaballoo.

Buhary, start the fight against kworuption within your own cabinet among the newly identified thieves, if you got no liver to prosecute the political class. (Amaechi, Fashole etc)

However, my prayers have not change.

- May all looters of our common wealth NEVER find peace in this life and in the life to come everlasting.

- May all who benefited from this loots be strike with various forms of incurable sicknesses never known to human race.

Unless they return our loots in their custody.

Thank you.

Firefire:
ok let the one-sided fight against kworuption continue.

Dambazul

Burantai

And others, please continue to enjoy your loots.

SamuelAnyawu:


Perfect Prayer

midolian:
bygone kor, bywent ni!

Not after all the "ever-surfacing" attrocities he has committed. We can't stop mentioning the hatman bacause whenever we mention a crime, the crime mentions his name.

anonimi:


Really
Such as when you mention the crime by these comrades-in-LOOTING?

Pavore9:
A [size=13pt]self-professed[/size] solicitor to Dame Patience Jonathan, Mr. Charles Ogboli, says the $20m found in the five accounts traced to Patience could have been given to her by her husband, former President Goodluck Jonathan.

"When asked where Patience could have got the money from, the lawyer said $20m (N8bn) was not too much for a woman whose husband served as a deputy governor, governor, Vice-President and President within a period of 16 years".

"sometimes in 2013, instructed the then Special Adviser to the President on Domestic Affairs, Waripamowei Dudafa, to open domiciliary accounts for herself and her late mother".

“Her personal name was on first card while the other two cards had her mother’s name. Her mother used two of the accounts for business. The fact is that the names on the cards were supposed to be the names of her mother and herself."

The lawyer no well at all!

Firefire:
Unfortunately, Buhary himself is morally kworopt.

faithugo64:
buhari what have you done with all the looted funds you have recovered so far? where are the funds? will collecting this one make any difference? your fight against corruption is indeed one-sided




keep deceiving yourself not us

Firefire:
APC has re-looted the recovered loots.

1. Nobody is asking question about the imposed N50 Stamp Duty on every deposit in Nigeria.

2. And nobody is giving us the account balance of the withdrawals

I laugh the myopic and derailed sentiments of Nigerian youth, who are easily being deceived by the professional looters managing the affair of this country.

Fellow Nigerians, wise-up, ask questions and stop being deceived by supporting some looters and easily gaining organism when other names you hated are being mentioned.

Revealed: How Buhari Budgeted N39 billion for Propaganda

In a bid to launder his already battered image, President Muhammadu Buhari has allocated a whooping sum of N39 billion in the 2016 budget to the Ministry of Information and Culture, a sum higher than the paltry N29 billion allocated to the Ministry of Agriculture.

This is a direct inverse of the 2015 budget, where Former President Goodluck Jonathan allocated the sum of N23 billion to Ministry of Information and N39 billion to the Agricultural Ministry.

The meager allocation to the Agricultural ministry has left political stakeholders wondering if the present administration aims at diversifying the economy or thriving on propaganda.

Buhari had in August, 2015 stated that Nigerians must stop paying mere lip service to agriculture, as crude oil and gas exports will no longer be sufficient as the country’s major revenue earner.

“It’s time to go back to the land. We must face the reality that the petroleum we had depended on for so long will no longer suffice. We campaigned heavily on agriculture, and we are ready to assist as many want to go into agricultural ventures,’’ Buhari stated.

However investigations by Post Nigeria revealed that Buhari’s words did not match his action following the lean budgetary provision for Agriculture.

More from: https://www.post-nigeria.com/revealed-how-buhari-budgeted-n39-billion-for-propaganda/

midolian:
Beht if your GEJ had done a one-sided fight too, with Buhari doing his now, everything for don balance now

Stop speaking dogon turenchi, my brother

anonimi:


Truly, IF the lawyer is her lawyer and IF he said such he should be fired and de-robed.
However, I will not be surprised if this is just another episode from the propaganda playbook of the Association of ProgreTHIEF Criminals, APC just as they did for Saraki not so long ago and NOTHING came out of it.



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midolian:
Beht if your GEJ had done a one-sided fight too, with Buhari doing his now, everything for don balance now

Stop speaking dogon turenchi, my brother

midolian:
Beht if your GEJ had done a one-sided fight too, with Buhari doing his now, everything for don balance now

Stop speaking dogon turenchi, my brother