Fani-Kayode Withdraws
Comments on Bianca Ojukwu
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Chief Femi Fani-Kayode
Davidson Iriekpen
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withdrawn the statement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, also a former
Minister of Culture, 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, who was
also a spokesman of former
President Olusegun Obasanjo,
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.

Cowards always fold when the chips are down. He would have coughed up a billion naira now

I don't even care about the shameless coward but his blind followers especially from the SW that were hailing him while he danced naked.

cjrane: Cowards always fold when the chips are down. He would have coughed up a billion naira now

He is not a coward, he just didn't want to prolong issues being that there was no evidence to back it up. He is not a mad man to point fingers @ bianca, something must have really happened between the two of them.