More facts have continued to emerge as former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has thrown more light into how her estimated $20 million in Skye Bank was left in the accounts of four companies operated by the erstwhile Special Adviser on Domestic Matters to the President, Mr. Waripamo Dudafa.
Dame Jonathan explaining via a statement of claim in the suit she filed to recover the money, said all five accounts were opened with her funds but discovered to her surprise sometime in 2014 that four of the accounts were opened in the name of Dudafa’s companies, namely Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited, Seagate Property Development and Investment Company Limited and Trans Ocean Property and Investment Company Limited.
Mrs. Jonathan, who said she is a housewife, trader and wife of a politician, in the statement of claim, claimed that when she discovered that four of the accounts were not in her name, she drew the attention of the bank to it, following which Dudafa brought the bank manager, Dipo Oshodi, to her sometime in April 2014.
She said the bank manager promised to effect the change in account name, but that she subsequently discovered that it was not effected, adding that despite repeated requests that the change in account name be done, the bank did not heed her advice.
While claiming that the funds were solely operated by her and without any encumbrance until lately, Mrs Jonathan said she, at all times, was in possession of the credit cards linked to the accounts and had continued to draw from the accounts till sometime in July 2016 when she discovered that the cards stopped working.
On enquiries, she said, she was told to make a formal request to the bank.
