Court adjourns appeal of Patience Jonathan’s $5.9 dollars from Skye bank
The Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal has fixed November 3, 2017, to hear the appeal filed by wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, against the temporary seizure of a sum of $5.9m found in her Skye Bank account.
The appellate court fixed the date at the Monday proceedings in the case.
Patience, through her lawyer, Chief Ifedayo Adedipe (SAN), is urging the Court of Appeal to overturn an April 26, 2017, interim order of Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of the Federal High Court in Lagos that the $5.9m found in her Skye Bank account should be temporarily forfeited to the Federal Government.
The forfeiture order was made in favour of the EFCC which took an ex parte application before the judge.
Apart from Patience’s personal account with $5.9m, the court also froze a number of accounts linked to her, including an Ecobank account, with a balance of N2.4bn, opened in the name of one La Wari Furniture and Bath Limited.
In a supporting affidavit attached to the ex parte application, the EFCC told Justice Olatoregun that the funds were suspected to be proceeds of Patience’s alleged criminal activities.
