Bianca finally speaks: Denies Fani-Kayode …Set to drag him to court

It has been a whirlwind of controversies since controversial politician Femi Fani-Kayode alleged he had an intimate relationship with Bianca, widow of late Igbo leader Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.

The former Aviation minister in a recent article, entitled, “Neither a tribalist nor a hater,” claimed to have met and dated Bianca when she was still a spinster at the Cambridge College where they both had an intimate affair before she eventually met the late Biafran leader, Ojukwu.

The latest twist to the hullabaloo created by the revelation was the recently released statement by Mrs. Ojukwu who denied ever dating Femi Fani-Kayode even as a spinster. The Nigerian Ambassador to Spain, while debunking the claim by the former minister, also described it as false and baseless.

The former Aviation minister in the controversial article said, “I was not a tribalist when I had a long-standing and intimate relationship with Bianca Onoh, an Igbo lady, who later married Colonel Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the leader of Biafra and who is now our Ambassador in Spain.”

Pretty Mrs. Ojukwu, while reacting to the article through her lawyers, Wall Street Attorneys, threatened to drag Femi Fani-Kayode to court if he fails to retract his ‘libelous publication’ against her in the next seven days. (Already elapsed).

In a letter published as an advertorial in some of the national dailies, embittered Mrs. Ojukwu through her lawyers demanded an apology and a retraction of the false and malicious statement. “We have been briefed and our services retained by Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu, Nigeria’s Ambassador to Spain to demand from you an unreserved apology and a retraction of a false and malicious statement, which you published online and also caused to be published in the Leadership Newspaper of August 16, 2013,” part of the statement read.

“In the said article entitled, ‘Neither a Tribalist nor a Hater,’ you recklessly alleged, as follows: ‘I was not a tribalist when I had a long standing and intimate relationship with Miss Bianca Onoh…’, a statement, which you know is untrue and unfounded, but only calculated to lower our client’s esteem and damage her national and international reputation. Our client has never met you, does not know you in person and has never had any official or private relationship with you how much more ‘a long-standing and intimate relationship’,” the statement further read.

 “Your apparent lame and half-hearted attempt, as published in the Leadership Newspaper of 17^th August 2013, to clarify your false and malicious allegation falls far short of a retraction and does not sufficiently address the damage to our client arising from the widespread dissemination of your false publication and is therefore unacceptable to our client. In the circumstances, we demand, on the instruction of our client that you submit to her, a clear and unqualified apology and publish or cause to be published a retraction of your libelous outburst in The Sun and Thisday Newspapers in addition to having the retraction published online. Take note that should you fail to tender the apology and publish a retraction of your false and malicious publication, seven days next after your receipt of this demand notice, our further instructions are to seek appropriate redress in court. And that shall be without further recourse to you. Be properly guided,” the statement concluded. 

By STEVE DEDE