The Niger Delta Peoples Professional Volunteer
Force (NDPPVF), has threatened to bomb the
headquarters of the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) if the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) arrests former First
Lady, Patience Jonathan.
Accusing the anti-graftagency of witch-hunting
the former first lady, the group, according to an
onlinenews portal, TheCable, advised EFCC to lift
the No Debit Order imposed on her Skye Bank
accounts.
The accounts contain more than $15 million, but
Jonathan’s wife has since explained that the
money was meant for her medical bills.
Last week, the EFCC filed money laundering
charges against Waripamowei Dudafa, Jonathan’s
special adviser on domestic affairs, whom the
former first lady directed to open the accounts
Dudafa, Amajuoyi Briggs, a lawyer; and Damola
Bolodeoku, a Skye Bank official.
On Tuesday, the Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim
Magu, also told journalists that Jonathan’s wife
was under investigation.
But in a statement by Parkinson George-Amabo,
spokesman of NDPPVF, the group warned Magu
that investigating Patience could result into “bad
blood, embarrassment and possible unrest in the
Niger Delta.”
The group said it is not in support of corruption,
but against the manner in which the agency is
investigating Patience who has had an
“impressive and fortuitous pedigree.”
“As a matter of fact, the EFCC has launched a
criminal investigation of Mrs. Jonathan and in the
process, frozen her bank accounts domiciled with
a Nigerian commercial bank without affording her
opportunity to state her own side of the matter,”
the statement read.
“Nobody is above the law. The NDPPVF does not
support or condone corruption. If Mrs. Jonathan
was found to be corrupt, we shall not hesitate to
call for her prosecution.
“We, however, have a grouse with the modus
operandi of Mrs. Jonathan’s investigation, given
her status as the wife of a former deputy
governor, former governor, former vice-president,
former acting president and finally, former
president. She is perhaps, the only Nigerian
woman – dead or alive – with such an impressive
and fortuitous pedigree; which accounts for why
the EFCC needs to thread with caution.
“Recently, there have been calls on the Attorney-
General of the Federation as well as the EFCC
to arrest and prosecute the former First Lady for
alleged money laundering.
“We shall simultaneously bomb the 4 wings of the
NNPC Towers the day it is announced that Mrs.
Patience Goodluck Jonathan has been
arrestedThe group added that before her husband
emerged as vice-president in 2007, the EFCC
investigated Mrs. Jonathan and cleared of any
wrongdoing.”
The Niger Delta Peoples Professional Volunteer
Force (NDPPVF), has threatened to bomb the
headquarters of the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) if the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) arrests former First
Lady, Patience Jonathan.
Accusing the anti-graftagency of witch-hunting
the former first lady, the group, according to an
onlinenews portal, TheCable, advised EFCC to lift
the No Debit Order imposed on her Skye Bank
accounts.
The accounts contain more than $15 million, but
Jonathan’s wife has since explained that the
money was meant for her medical bills.
Last week, the EFCC filed money laundering
charges against Waripamowei Dudafa, Jonathan’s
special adviser on domestic affairs, whom the
former first lady directed to open the accounts
Dudafa, Amajuoyi Briggs, a lawyer; and Damola
Bolodeoku, a Skye Bank official.
On Tuesday, the Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim
Magu, also told journalists that Jonathan’s wife
was under investigation.
But in a statement by Parkinson George-Amabo,
spokesman of NDPPVF, the group warned Magu
that investigating Patience could result into “bad
blood, embarrassment and possible unrest in the
Niger Delta.”
The group said it is not in support of corruption,
but against the manner in which the agency is
investigating Patience who has had an
“impressive and fortuitous pedigree.”
“As a matter of fact, the EFCC has launched a
criminal investigation of Mrs. Jonathan and in the
process, frozen her bank accounts domiciled with
a Nigerian commercial bank without affording her
opportunity to state her own side of the matter,”
the statement read.
“Nobody is above the law. The NDPPVF does not
support or condone corruption. If Mrs. Jonathan
was found to be corrupt, we shall not hesitate to
call for her prosecution.
“We, however, have a grouse with the modus
operandi of Mrs. Jonathan’s investigation, given
her status as the wife of a former deputy
governor, former governor, former vice-president,
former acting president and finally, former
president. She is perhaps, the only Nigerian
woman – dead or alive – with such an impressive
and fortuitous pedigree; which accounts for why
the EFCC needs to thread with caution.
“Recently, there have been calls on the Attorney-
General of the Federation as well as the EFCC
to arrest and prosecute the former First Lady for
alleged money laundering.
“We shall simultaneously bomb the 4 wings of the
NNPC Towers the day it is announced that Mrs.
Patience Goodluck Jonathan has been
arrestedThe group added that before her husband
emerged as vice-president in 2007, the EFCC
investigated Mrs. Jonathan and cleared of any
wrongdoing.”
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