By Audrey Lotechukwu
WED, APRIL 29 2020-theG&BJournal- Former President Goodluck Jonathan irked by news report that the Federal Government of Nigeria has subpoenaed his bank records and that of his wife, Dame Patience Jonathan in the United States of America, is demanding that the bank accounts be made public if indeed they exist.
The accusation relates to the highly controversial P&ID contracts for pipeline and related infrastructure in 2010 which the company, P&IB, said the Federal Government repudiated. Both parties are in court on the case.
A recent Bloomberg report claimed that public officers including the former president and his wife has been requested by the Federal Government to make available their statements of account to verify the transactions relating to the P&IB transactions. Bloomberg named the banks as JP Morgan Chase and New York branches of Deutsche Bank AG.
The former president issued a statement late Tuesday made available to theG&BJournal saying that he has no accounts in the United States of America, and encourages US authorities to cooperate fully with the Federal Government of Nigeria’s subpoena. He said that the Federal Government of Nigeria did not contact him or his wife before issuing these subpoenas.
‘’If they had, we would have advised them of the fact that you cannot subpoena what does not exist.’’
Former president noted that the contract preceded his administration, saying that he gave ‘’appropriate counsel to the incoming government in the handover notes of 2015, which advice, if carried out, would have prevented the current unfortunate circumstances.’’
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