Former
Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has dismissed as a lie the
claim by the wife to the late Ikemba of Nnewi, Chief Emeka
Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Bianca, that he never knew her.
In a statement by Mr. Bisi Lawal on his
behalf yesterday (Friday), the former minister insisted that the former
beauty queen’s claim was false.
Fani-Kayode was reacting to a newspaper advertorial where Bianca threatened to sue him for mentioning her name in his article.
Bianca claimed in the report that she had never met the former minister in her life.
Reacting to the claim, Fani-Kayode said,
“Ordinarily he would have not have said a word about this matter
because he sympathises 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 he would 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 sympathises 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.”
The former minister in an article
entitled, “A Word for Those Who Say I am A Tribalist,’’ noted that he
associated with Igbo women in the past.
He named the three women as Bianca Onoh, Chioma Anasoh and Adaobi Uchegbu.
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