The 15 defendants were charged with conspiracy, armed robbery, and theft of luxury items worth N200 million, including gold jewellery, electronics, and furniture.
“But God told me to go there. He said, ‘If your children can make it, why can’t you? Just go. ..”
“At times, my lecturer would get me angry and say, ‘Go and repeat this page.’”
“I feel that no age is too late to achieve your academic dreams, whether you are young or old. If I can do it, you can also do it,” she said.
The aim is to frustrate the process and keep these innocent people in prison as long as possible. It’s an abuse of the legal system,” one source said.
Mrs Jonathan declared, “I’m not running. I’m not going back to the villa. If you call me, I will not go.”
Former First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan has pledged to support First Lady Senator Oluremi Tinubu in the 2027 general elections, declaring she has no intention of returning to Aso Rock.
I believe in one president. I believe in turn-by-turn. When it’s your turn, I will support you. When it’s not your turn, step back—so that the country can move forward.
A Bayelsa court has intervened in a long-standing legal impasse, ordering a swift trial for 15 domestic workers held since 2019 over missing jewellery allegedly owned by Mrs. Patience Jonathan.
“We have been in prison since 2019. We were domestic staff of the former first lady, Patience Jonathan. In 2019, there was a case of breaking into one of her apartments in Otuoke, and she decided to arrest all her workers.“We were not even working in that apartment; since then, there is no evidence to prove to the court, and the case is not proceeding…”