ABUJA STREET WHERE JONATHAN’S SECOND WIFE, TAMBUWAL, DIMEJI BANKOLE 24GOVERNORS AND EX-IGS HAVE MANSIONS...

 

  Danube Street located off Ibrahim Babangida Way in Maitama Abuja is a special street. From the outside the street does not look special.  Once you enter the street, one thing you cannot but notice, especially early in the day and till late afternoon is the number of Policemen attached to many of the houses. While some have two others have as many as five or six. This is where some of those who really matter in Nigeria have their own homes. Not their guest houses, not their contact places but where they come around to relax, out of the prying eyes. President Goodluck Jonathan is believed to have a home on this street and he is believed to visit the imposing mansion on Sundays. This is where Mrs Lot Jonathan. Specially called MRS Lot J lives with her kids.

 Apart from the President, not less than twenty four serving and former Governors have homes here. Two former Inspectors-General of Police as well as three former Chief Justices of the Federation are also believed to have homes here also. The Speaker of the House of Representative, Aminu Tambuwal, his predecessor, Dimeji Bankole as well as many other top political office holders, past and present have homes in the same area. The attraction seems to be nothing other than the fact that the others have homes there and so each one of them seems keen on having one. 

Some of the mansions here have fences that even dwarf the houses they protect and you hardly see anyone come in or out of the houses except the Mobile or regular policemen that guide the houses. In the nights, especially when there are high level political activities in town, the street however looks busy.