Immediate
past First Lady of Nigeria, Patience Jonathan has fallen out with a
Federal High Court after withdrawing a case against EFCC.
Patience Jonathan
Justice Saliu Seidu of the Federal High Court sitting in Port
Harcourt has imposed a fine of N50,000 on the wife of former President
Goodluck Jonathan, Patience for withdrawing a suit instituted against
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), SaharaReporters
reports.
Mrs. Jonathan had in February 2017 instituted a suit against the EFCC in which she was seeking an order of the court for the “enforcement
of her fundamental rights to own property, fair hearing, human dignity,
private and family life and freedom from discrimination”.
The plaintiff through her counsel, Ifedayo Adedipe had prayed the court to restrain the EFCC from infringing on her rights.
Counsel to the EFCC, Kayode Oni, faulted the former first lady on
her prayers before the court, arguing that her suit was “an abuse of
court process”.
At the resumed hearing of the matter on Monday, Sammie Somiari who
represented Patience addressed the court on a notice of discontinuance
of the suit.
He said he had “an instruction” of his client to discontinue the
matter, adding that an application had been filed before the court to
that effect.
On his part, Oni submitted that Mrs Patience had a right to
discontinue the case, but pressed for a charge of N500,000 as costs of
filing processes in response to the suit.
Justice Seidu struck out the suit and awarded cost against the plaintiff.
This was contained in a statement issued by the EFCC Head, Media & Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren.
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