Court adjourns Patience Jonathan’s suit to Feb.13
A Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos on Wednesday adjourned further hearing in a suit instituted by former first lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and six others over the frozen of the sum of $15.5 million, she claimed belonged to her, to February 13.
Joined as co-respondents are Skye bank Plc, Waripamo-Owei Dudafa and four other companies: Pluto Property and Investment Company Ltd, Seagate Property Development and Investment Company Ltd, Transocean Property and Investment Company Ltd and Globus Integrated Service Ltd.
When the matter came up yesterday, Mrs. Jonathan’s lawyer, Chief Ifedayo Adedipe (SAN), sought for an adjournment to enable him serve her client’s amended claims on the companies.
He added that other defendants have been served with copies of the processes while they have also served their counter-affidavits on the plaintiff.
In the absence of any opposition to the silk’s request, the matter was eventually adjourned to February 13 for further hearing.
It will be recalled that the four companies, which the EFCC claimed was used by Dudafa to launder the $15.591 million, had pleaded guilty to the offence of money laundering before Justice Babs Kuewumi of the same court.
The sum involved in the criminal case is the same money the former first lady claimed belongs to her as the sole signatory to the accounts of the companies. She, however, denied ownership of the companies.
