Dame Patience Ibifaka Jonathan has slammed a 200 million dollars suit on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) at a Federal High Court in Lagos. Her lawyer, Granville Abibo (SAN) filed the suit.

In an affidavit in support of the originating Dame Patience Jonathan told the court that on March 22, 2010 with the assistance of officials of the bank, Mr. Damola Bolodeoku and Dipo Oshodi, validly opened five different accounts with the financial institution.

She later discovered that apart from one of the accounts that bore her name, the rest four carried names of four companies belonging Dudafa. She equally noticed that the ATM cards of the said accounts were issued in the names of the companies, a development that allegedly necessitated her contacting Dudafa who purportedly promised to effect the necessary changes through the concerned bank official, Oshodi.

She added that she is not a director, shareholder or participant in the companies, maintaining that the funds in the said accounts were entirely hers.

Dame Jonathan revealed that she was neither arrested nor invited by the anti-graft agency prior to the embargo and that several appeals to have the order reversed fell on deaf ears.

She argued that the action by the bank without an order of the court was unlawful.

Therefore, apart from her demand for 200 million dollars as damages, she is also urging the court not only to declare that the no debit and freezing order is unlawful but to issue an order discharging it and restraining the EFCC and its agent from further or subsequently placing a no debit/freezing order on the said accounts.