Patience, wife of former
President Goodluck Jonathan, has asked the Federal High Court in Lagos to
strike out an ex-parte application by filed against her by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The application is seeking
temporary forfeiture of her $8,435,788.84 and N7.35 billion.
She is also praying the court for
an order striking out the motion filed last December 13 on the ground that the
court lacked jurisdiction to hear it.
Mrs Jonathan said the EFCC’s
motion was “a gross abuse of court process” because the issues were already
pending before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja.
“The ex parte originating summons
filed by the EFCC amounts to forum shopping, thus an abuse of court process,”
she said.
However, hearing was stalled in
the case, yesterday, due to Justice Olatoregun’s absence. The case was
adjourned till today, Tuesday.
Through her lawyers, Mr Ifedayo
Adedipe, SAN, and Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, Mrs Jonathan said the same
application had earlier been filed by the EFCC before Justice Mojisola
Olatoregun of the court’s Lagos division, upon which it had obtained an
ex-parte order.
She said the same application was
before Justice Nyako “over same parties to be affected by this same
application.”
The former first lady said EFCC
allegedly failed to disclose the different suits and orders made prior to
filing the application before Justice Olatoregun in Lagos.
“The respondent is making great
mockery of this judicial system and by extension this court,” Mrs Jonathan
said.
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