These are not the best of times for former President Goodluck Jonathan’s wife, Patience as a house situated at Shehu Yar’Adua Way along Mabushi-Kado Life Camp Expressway, Abuja allegedly belonging to her has been razed down by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Development Control Department.

Patience Jonathan crying

Be that as it may, her lawyer, Emmanuel Anene of EA Ezugwu & Associates revealed that: “Sometime before, people from development control came to the site, alleging that there was no approval for the building. We met them at their office and showed them the approval, which they accepted. We thought that the matter was over.”

“They had earlier gone to court with application for forfeiture of the property to the government which they failed to achieve at the Lagos high court. So we were surprised that a team came in this afternoon without notifying us to remove the structure. Also, we were not served with any notice for demolition, they just came in now and started the demolition of the structure.”

The demolished property

However, Muktar Usman, Director of Development Control, Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) responded that the building has no approval and that notice was served for the demolition of the property. “The building is not the only one affected by the demolition in the area; there are others that were also demolished.”