After much claim and ownership of the said account by Patience Jonathan, she is now pleading with the EFCC to release her account explaining that the account which contained $31.4 million was for
paying her medical bills and personal expenses. Meanwhile, the EFCC had frozen the account on corruption-related investigation.
Patience Jonathan has written to Ibrahim Magu, the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to lift the restriction on her account explaining that the $31.4 million found in her account is for her medical expenses. The former first lady had initially filed a suit against the anti-graft agency after the account linked to her was frozen.