Patience Jonathan, wife of Goodluck Jonathan, former President, has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of attempting to assassinate her twice between February and April 2017.

Patience, who made accusation in a petition to the House of Representatives against security agencies, alleged that the EFCC “repeatedly” bugged the telephone lines of Patience and her relatives.

“There have been assassination attempts, at least twice, between February and April, 2017, against our client ostensibly by the operatives of the EFCC along the Yenagoa-Mbaima road, Bayelsa state, in furtherance of its unlawful actions against the former first family,” read the petition prepared by Granville Abibo, her lawyer.

“The EFCC and its agents have repeatedly bugged the personal telephones of our client and her relations through its many operatives and has inundated her with numerous threatening calls and text messages.”

She accused the commission of seizing her bank accounts, and those of her relatives and NGOs, also claiming that officials of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) vandalised property in her hotel in Bayelsa State.

“On May 3, 2017, officials of the FIRS, in a convoy of about 20 trucks and over 70 personnel, raided our client’s NGO – Aridolf Jo Resort Wellness and Spa Limited – situated at Kpansia expressway, Bayelsa state, and orchestrated a massive destruction of personal properties belonging to our client without any lawful court order or search warrant and caused mayhem there under the guise of trying to collect unpaid taxes without following any due process provided by law to do so,” the petition further read.

Patience implored the lower chamber to save her from the EFCC assassination attempts.

The ex-First Lady has recently been under investigation by the anti-corruption agency over possession of monies believed to have been proceeds of corruption.

In April, the federal high court in Lagos granted a fresh ex parte application ordering the forfeiture of $5.9 million belonging to her.

The following month, the same court refused her request for the unfreezing her accounts containing $15.5 million.