Former First Lady, Patience Jonathan on Monday visited he Maitama branch of the Skye Bank in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.
Her visit was less than one week after her 6 million dollars was recently unfrozen by a court order.
Patience Jonathan was at the bank until 4pm but declined to speak to reporters who approached her.
Mrs Jonathan was said to have had a brief meeting with an Executive Director of Skye Bank.
Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of the Federal High Court sitting in
Lagos, last Thuraday, ordered that her domiciliary account of be
unfrozen because she was not a party to the initial case that led to the
freezing of the account.
The account had hitherto been frozen by the
same court following an affidavit in support of Ex-parte originating
summons sworn to by an EFCC operative, Abdulahi Tukur, and filed before
the court by EFCC prosecutor, Rotimi Oyedepo.
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However, the court reversed the initial freezing order sequel to an
application argued by her (Patience’s) legal team which is led by
Adedayo Adedipe (SAN).
Adedipe urged the court to unfreeze the
account on the ground that Patience Jonathan was not a party in the suit
leading to the order made by the court.
Adedipe while citing
judicial authorities contended that the order was an abuse of court
process as the court has no jurisdiction to make an order against a
party that is not a party in a suit filed before the court.
The EFCC did not file any response to the application filed by Adedipe seeking to discharge the order.
Based on the submission which the court admitted and upheld, Justice
Olatoregun discharged the initial order freezing the account.
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