President Goodluck Jonathan will leave the Aso Villa after
May 29 for Muhammadu Buhari. Puch's Simon Utebor was at Jonathan’s Bayelsa
State-country home where he is expected to retire to.
The air around the sprawling estate is amazingly cool.
Looking around, the answer to this quickly dawns. The estate is opposite a
creek, and the rolling breeze keep coming.
Behind the gates, shoving their heads above the walls are no
fewer than eight different structures apparently for different purposes:
recreation, security posts and guard quarters. A visitor to Otuoke will not be
penalised for calling the place a fortress.
It was learnt that Jonathan, after acquiring those buildings
in 2013, engaged the services of a construction company, Jiito, to expand the
estate to accommodate his new acquisition.
Today, Jonathan’s mini-estate, which overlooks a creek that
links Otuoke to other coastal communities of Bayelsa, is a cynosure of all
eyes.
A visit to Otuoke showed that Jonathan’s mansions, which had
been under construction and reconstruction in the last 10 years are now ready
for habitation. The area sit on is best described as an island.
It was learnt that before now, each time the President
visited Otuoke, he usually slept in his wife’s (Patience) castle which is
directly opposite the Federal University, Otuoke.
It was also learnt that the Jonathans own the choicest
properties in Otuoke. The President was said to have built a two-storey
building each for his mother and father opposite his own.
A source in the area said: “I overheard some of the workers
saying that they had been instructed to finish the last building before the
second week of May. I think it is because the President is returning home.
“As of now, no domestic staff or relatives are living here.
All his relatives have their homes. It is only military men and policemen that
are living in some of the buildings. Even at that, many buildings are left
unoccupied because the buildings are so massive and it will take a community to
occupy them.”
I think that is greed , when will have alot of people without homes on the street . when he dies he should carry all these along with him.
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