Femi Fani-Kayode Withdraws Comments On Bianca Ojukwu

A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has withdrawn the statement credited to him that he had an intimate relationship with the wife of the late Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and Nigeria’s Ambassador to Spain, Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu.

Fani-Kayode, in a statement by his lawyer, Mr. Akinola Babatunde Rotimi, however, said the claim by Bianca that they were not friends and had never met was ‘patently false’.

The former minister insisted that he knew Bianca in the early mid-80s when he was a student at the London and Cambridge Universities respectively.He noted that they were good friends at the time and had a few mutual friends who are still alive till date.

The statement stated that though he had not seen Bianca for over 25 years, he spoke to her on the phone when her husband passed on last year. Fani-Kayode had in an article titled: ‘Neither a Tribalist Nor a Hater,’ published in the Leadership Newspaper of Augusts 16 edition to defend himself over his write-up on the relocation of some Igbo to Anambra State by the Lagos State Government, alleging that he had “a long standing and intimate relationship with Bianca Onoh.”

But Bianca had through an advertorial published in some national newspapers, demanded an apology and a complete retraction of the statement within seven days or she would institute a legal action against the former minister.

The Fani-Kayode statement read: “Our client knew Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu in the early to mid-80′s when he was a student at London University and Cambridge University respectively.

“They were good friends at the time and they had a few mutual friends who are still alive today. The bizarre, absurd and inexplicable assertion that they were not friends and that Ambassador Ojukwu has never met our client is patently false.

“Though he has not seen her for over 25 years, he spoke to her on the phone when her husband passed on last year. As our client said earlier through his press secretary, some of the words he used to describe his friendship with her in his article titled: ‘A Word For Those Who Call Me A Tribalist’ were indiscreet. He hereby withdraws them.”

THISDAY also gathered from sources close to Fani-Kayode that the former aviation minister was making efforts through emissaries close to Bianca to reach out to her to resolve the disagreement.

The sources said the former minister was concerned that the issue had degenerated and would want a resolution on the misunderstanding. 

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Femi Fani Kayode Responds To Bianca Ojukwu's Threat To Sue Him

Former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has responded to Bianca Ojukwu's threat to sue him for saying he had an intimate relationship with her.

Chief Femi Fani Kayode responded via his spokesperson, Mr Bisi Lawal.

This morning Cheif Femi Fani-Kayode woke up to find a letter that was published as an advertorial in Thisday Newspaper purportedly by Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu's lawyer threatening to sue him for mentioning her in his article and claiming that she has never met him before. 

She also said that he was being malicious. The matter has of course been referred to Chief Fani-Kayode's lawyers who will now take it up.

Ordinarily he would have not have said a word about this matter because he sympathizes with her for whatever she may have been going through.

However now that she has put it in the public realm Chief Fani-Kayode is compelled to formally respond. To the assertion that he never knew her and that they were never friends he says this is false and he asks why would he lie? The public evidence is to the contrary. Chief Fani-Kayode would not want to say anything to embarrass her because that would be ungentlemanly.

He sympathizes with her delicate situation and once again he expresses his regrets about the fact that his statement about her was misconstrued. We shall just leave it at that.

Signed by Mr. Bisi Lawal on behalf of Femi Fani Kayode

 Source: Linda Ikeji's Blog 

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Bianca Rejected As Director In Ojukwu’s Firm

As the recently read will of the late Ikemba of Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odimmegwu Ojukwu continues to generate ripples within his immediate and extended family, a director in Ojukwu Transport Company Limited, Mr. Ifeukwu Ojukwu, has declared that the wife of the late Biafran warlord, Bianca, has no place on the directorship or trusteeship of the company.

Mr. Ifeukwu Ojukwu, on Monday, argued that since OTL was owned by the late Sir Louis Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the late Biafran warlord could not dictate who the trustees or directors of the company should be.

In his Will, the late Ikemba had instructed that Bianca replace him as a trustee of OTL.

Ifeukwu said, “Bianca is neither a trustee member nor a Director of OTL and it is good to note that OTL is a different property from the things the late Ikemba Ojukwu had and the directorship cannot be transferred through a Will.”

The clarification by Ifeukwu, who is based in Boston, United States, comes on the heels of the insistence by counsel to the late Ikemba, Chief Emeka Onyemelukwe, that the Will read last Friday at the Enugu State High Court Registrar, was authentic and sacrosanct.

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Ojukwu gives Bianca largest share of his estate

The will of the late Biafran warlord, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, was on Friday presented to the family with his widow, Bianca Ojukwu, getting the lion’s share.

The presentation by the Chief Registrar of the Enugu State High Court, Dennis Ekoh, was witnessed by Mrs Ojukwu, Val Nwosu, Ojukwu’s first cousin, and Mike Ejemba.

In the will, the late Ojukwu identified one Tenny Haman as one of his children.

Ojukwu listed the children as Tenny Haman, Chukwuemeka Jnr, Mmegha, Okigbo, Ebele, Chineme, Afam and Nwachukwu.

He gave the Casabianca Lodge at No. 7, Forest Crescent, GRA, Enugu, two properties at Jabi and Kuje in the FCT as well as all his money and personal effects to his widow.

He also said Bianca should replace him as the trustee in the family company, Ojukwu Transport Limited, while also giving her two plots of land in his village at Nnewi.

He, however, added that if she re-married, the land should be taken away from her.

The first son, Emeka Jnr., got the family house at Nnewi, while the newly mentioned daughter, Tenny Haman, got the Jubilee Hotel located in Zaria, Kaduna State.

The Ikemba of Nnewi also shared other landed property in the village among all his children.

Ojukwu listed the trustees and executors of the will to include Bianca, Emeka Jnr and James Chukwuneme.

Reacting to the will, Bianca, who is Nigeria’s Ambassador to Spain, expressed satisfaction with its contents.

“It was a fair will. This time round, he did not disappoint us,’’ she said.

The ambassador, however, expressed shock at the disclosure of a new daughter in the family, whom she said had never been mentioned by her husband.

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