Courtroom rejects Patience Jonathan’s Utility to Uestrain EFCC

A Federal excessive courtroom in Lagos on Tuesday
rejected an application by the spouse of former President Goodluck Jonathan, staying power, in search of to bar the financial and financial Crimes commission from tampering with a sum of $15.591 frozen in four Skye bank accounts.



The EFCC located a ‘No Debit Order’ on the four financial institution accounts in July even as probing Jonathan’s former special Assistant on domestic Affairs, Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, for money laundering.

However patience, who had laid declare to the money, filed a essential rights enforcement action towards the EFCC, Skye financial institution, Dudafa and the 4 companies in whose names the debts had been opened.

She is urging the court to order the EFCC to put off the ‘No Debit Order’ on the accounts and to release the $15.5m to her.


On the Tuesday’s lawsuits in the case before Justice Mohammed Idris, patience’s legal professional, Mr. Ifedayo Adedipe (SAN), made an oral software, urging the choose to restrain the EFCC from tampering with the cash pending the very last willpower of the case.

But the EFCC lawyer, Mr. Rotimi Oyedepo, antagonistic him, arguing that the four businesses who owned the 4 financial institution money owed had been convicted of money laundering by way of Justice Babs Kuewumi of the same court.

“We pray the court to disregard the application with a wave of hand. there is an order of the court that has convicted the fourth to seventh defendants for warehousing the proceeds of crime,” Oyedepo said.

He argued that the case earlier than Justice Kuewumi might be prejudiced ought to Justice Idris restrain the EFCC from tampering with the money.


Oyedepo also contended that staying power did no longer have the locus standing to make such an application, and expressed doubt as to the validity of the addresses of the fourth to seventh defendants where endurance claimed to have served the originating summons.


Dudafa’s legal professional, Mr. Gboyega Oyewole, but, said the courtroom bailiff had already deposed to a sworn statement that the fourth to 7th defendants were served.

In a brief ruling, Justice Idris said he could as an alternative grant an accelerated listening to of the case, than make any order that could prejudice the outcome of the main case.


He adjourned until December 7, 2016 for the listening to of the main case.


In advance within the proceedings, Justice Idris mentioned a letter from Skye financial institution’s legal professional, Lanre Ogunlesi, pointing out that he turned into indisposed and could now not be able to come to courtroom on Tuesday.