Chinedu Epeagba, a Nollywood Location Manager based in Asaba is dead. Chinedu who is popularly known as Dabebe was first rumoured to have died mysteriously. According to popular gossip which made rounds, they said Dabebe’s death was caused by village ‘remotely control’.
The story asserted that his kinsmen from Mbaise; his home town did not want him to succeed in life…so they killed him using diabolical means.
Thankfully, Nollywood comic actor, Ugezu J. Ugezu has thrown more light into Dabebe’s cause of death. Ugezu said: “Our preliminary investigation, backed with scientific presentations from the last doctor that treated him in Onitsha, shows that Dabebe died from complications triggered by the made in China SLIMMING TEA, which he started drinking in July.
This tea, medicine or whatever, gradually destroyed all his internal organs and by the time he became too weak and got rushed to the hospital, his body couldn’t respond to treatment; organs were ruined already. The sad news is that Dabebe, that promising young man, is dead.”
OMGosh!!! And I’m such a big fan of Chinese slimming tea! This is so sad!
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The threat of a unilateral Israeli strike on Iran if the US does not act on Syria is slowly seeping into American media.
What is the driving force in the building U.S. campaign to launch attacks on Syria? Max Blumenthal below argues that Israel's military intelligence and political leadership are forcing the issue, and a recent New York Times article described the Israel lobby as a powerful presence in the White House's deliberations. Other journalists, like the Guardian's Nafeez Ahmed have suggested that the impetus for attacking Syria is part of a larger regional multi-year project to sustain control over the production of oil and gas by Western oil companies. Noam Chomsky, long-time scholar and commentator on the Mideast has argued persuasively that the Israel lobby's influence in the United States is overstated; essentially arguing that Israel is a satellite of US power, and that its priorities are addressed to the extent that the US is in agreement with its wishes.
How Israel Is driving the US to War in Syria by Max Blumenthal
President Barack Obama’s August 31 announcement that he would seek congressional authorization to strike Syria has complicated an aggressive Israeli campaign to render a US attack inevitable. While the Israelis are far from the only force in bringing the US to the brink of war – obviously Assad’s own actions are the driving factor – their dubious intelligence assessments have proven pivotal.
On April 25, the head of the Israeli army’s Military Intelligence research and analysis division, Brig. Gen. Itai Brun, delivered a high profile lecture at the military-linked Institute for National Security Studies. “To the best of our professional understanding, the [Syrian] regime has used lethal chemical weapons,” Brun declared, referring to March 19 attacks near Damascus and Aleppo.
“The very fact that they have used chemical weapons without any appropriate reaction,” Brun said, “is a very worrying development, because it might signal that this is legitimate.”
The stunning statement by the Israeli army’s top intelligence analyst was significantly stronger than suspicions expressed days before by the UK and France about the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons. It was clearly aimed at Obama, who had declared in the summer of 2012 that chemical weapons attacks on civilian targets would transgress a “red line” and trigger US military action. But the White House pushed back against the Israeli ploy, dispatching Secretary of State John Kerry to demand Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supply more conclusive evidence.
“I don’t know yet what the facts are,” Kerry said after a phone call with Netanyahu, “I don’t think anybody knows what they are.”
Specious intelligence brightens the red line
Flash forward to the August 21 Ghouta massacre, where over 1000 Syrian civilians died without any sign of external wounds in a series of attacks. As in April, Israel has come forward with intelligence supposedly proving that the victims of the attacks died from nerve gas deployed by units from Assad’s Syrian Arab Army (SAA).
On August 24, Israel’s Channel 2 broadcast a report claiming that the 155th Brigade of the 4th Armored Division of Assad’s SAA fired the nerve gas shells on Ghouta. Channel 2 added that Israel was relaying its concerns to Washington, suggesting an urgent demand for US action. The report was echoed by an August 30 article in Germany’s Focus magazine claiming that Israeli army’s Unit 8200 — a cyber-warfare division that functions much like the American NSA — had intercepted communications of top Syrian officials ordering the chemical attack.
Oddly, neither outlet was able to reproduce audio or any quotes of the conversation between the Syrian officials. Channel 2 did not appear to cite any source at all – it referred only to “the assessment in Israel” – while Focus relied on an unnamed former Mossad official for its supposed bombshell. The definitive nature of the Israeli intelligence on Ghouta stood in stark contrast to the kind introduced by other US allies, which was entirely circumstantial in nature. At the same time, it relied on murky sources and consisted of vague assertions.
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Kemi is 46, lives in Ibadan, Oyo Nigeria with her mother. Kemi is a Bi-Polar, Unmarried, woman who was arrested and deported from Canada (after living there for 5 years), which warrants for her arrest in Georgia USA.
Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo has 4 bastard children, desperate to become a martyr, her father was a governor for 3 MONTHS, and was overthrown because he's a thief.
sources from her friends confirmed that She suffers from brain damage,obsessed with the internet and celebrities.
Documented tobe Delusional, Sociopath, Scizophrenic, Narcissist. Kemi claims to be claimed to be a media personalities. She is also seeking for cheap popularity online and may go any length to achieve it.
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Once again, the Muslim feast of Eid-el-Fitr has come and gone and Nigerian leaders, as usual, used the opportunity to preach the gospel of peace and unity. Nigeria , they insisted, is the handiwork of God.
President Goodluck Jonathan upped the ante when he hosted Muslim leaders who paid him the traditional Sallah homage at Aso Rock by insisting that those predicting the breakup of the country in 2015 would be disappointed. God, in His infinite wisdom, designed the country to be one, the President enthused.
Ennobling sentiments, no doubt! But how sincere are Nigerians, both leaders and followers, in this avowal that Nigeria must remain united?
I ask this question because I am worried. After reading Femi Fani-kayode’s latest article, The bitter truth about the Igbo, an unprovoked attack on the Igbo nation, I couldn’t but conclude that we simply don’t have a country so called. If we claim we do, why are we finding it difficult to accept the fact that a Nigerian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the country?
Ordinarily, one would have dismissed Fani-Kayode’s vituperations as the ranting of a sick mind because no sane person can celebrate the slaughtering of fellow human beings in their thousands as he did in the article.
But he is no ordinary Nigerian. For whatever it is worth, he was a Minister of the Federal Republic . Besides, it is becoming apparent that he is not alone in the genocidal sentiment he is espousing. The anti-Igbo sentiment is becoming an industry in Nigeria .
He is celebrating the ‘slaughtering’ of Ndigbo in the 1960s, a manifestation of a mind consumed by hate.
“On July 29, 1966, General Aguiyi-Ironsi and no less than 300 Igbo army officers reaped the consequences of their action and plot when they were all slaughtered in just one night during the northern officers’ revenge coup,” he wrote.
He did not stop there. “Lt Colonel Yakubu Gowon was put in power – and a few weeks later between September 29, 1966 and the middle of October of that same year, approximately 50,000 Igbo civilians were attacked and slaughtered in a series of horrendous pogroms in the north by violent northern mobs,” he ululated. For him, such crimes against humanity were deserved comeuppance.
Fani-Kayode went a step further to literally declare the Igbo persona-non-grata in the South West, brazenly inciting the Yoruba against them.
There is no doubt that he would relish a replay of the savagery of the 1960s because according to him, despite all Ndigbo have been through over the years, the Yoruba are still witnessing the same attitude of “we must control,” “we must own all,” and “we must have all” rearing its ugly head again today.”
With this kind of tendentious anti-Igbo sentiment weaved around a lie from the pit of hell that Ndigbo are the problems of Nigeria, what it takes for pogroms of the 1960s to be re-enacted is a little incentive. And what could be more potent that the lie that Ndigbo are poised to appropriate the heritage of the Yoruba in Lagos ?
And what exactly did the Igbo do that so much incensed Fani-Kayode?
He said Orji Uzor Kalu, former Governor of Abia State, claimed Ndigbo generate “55 per cent of the state ( Lagos ) revenue,” and therefore have a stake in what happens here. How could this claim be deemed a capital offence whether it is true or not?
Fani-Kayode said he is “a servant of truth,” yet there is no single sentence in that article that can withstand scrutiny.
But that is a matter for another day. Suffice it to say that the Igbo are not the problem of the Yoruba. They are not seeking to take over the patrimony of the Yoruba. Ndigbo are Nigerians and have the constitutional right to live in any part of this country and earn a decent living.
And whatever wealth they have acquired in any part of the country is by dint of hard work.
Contrary to his claim, Ndigbo are not envious of the Yoruba. Why should they be? It is acknowledged globally that they are some of the most industrious people God ever created, which is why they were able to survive the horrendous aftermath of a genocidal war.
I doubt if Fani-Kayode, as a person, has excelled in anything in life more than his Igbo contemporaries. He said the Igbo are “mere traders” unlike the Yoruba who “were (and still are) major industrialists and investors.”
Maybe!
But there is nothing to be ashamed of in being “mere traders.” Ndigbo are proud of being mere traders as long as they are contributing their quota to the development of Nigeria .
In any case, were they mere traders before the civil war? Were they not in the commanding heights in the civil service, academia, industries, security services, name them? They became mere traders when someone not satisfied with orchestrating the death of over a million women and children, using starvation as “legitimate weapon of war” went ahead to ensure that those who survived the genocide were stripped of their hard-earned wealth by giving them a paltry 20 pounds and thereafter nationalising our patrimony to their utter exclusion.
One fact, which even the harshest critics acknowledge, is that Ndigbo are not known for treachery. You can accuse them of being brash, loud and not suffering fools gladly, but they are not sly. Unfortunately, in a country where treachery is a huge industry, integrity has become an anathema and that is why the Fani-Kayodes of this world have become superstars. But he cannot change who the Igbo are, no matter how hard he tries.
And he must learn to leave the Igbo out of his people’s problems.
He may twist history as much as he likes, but Ndigbo did not cause the problems that consumed the First Republic . The “wild-wild West phenomenon and “operation wetie” were neither orchestrated by Ndigbo nor did they betray Obafemi Awolowo.
Ndigbo did not betray MKO Abiola, either. In any case, it was the Igbo that made Abiola’s candidacy in the 1993 Presidential election possible when his people, as usual, rejected him for betraying Awolowo in the Second Republic . Since Fani-Kayode claims to be a student of history, he should know better.
When the chips were down and General Ibrahim Babangida annulled the election, it wasn’t the Igbo that took over from him as Chairman of the Interim National Government (ING).
When Babangida summoned traditional rulers to explain to them why he annulled the freest and fairest election in Nigeria’s history, it wasn’t monarchs from the Igbo nation that told Babangida that they had seen reason for the annulment with a promise to go back home to explain to their people.
It wasn’t the Igbo that went to General Sani Abacha to plead that he should stage a coup against the June 12 mandate, thereby throwing Abiola under the bus. It wasn’t Ndigbo that ultimately betrayed Abiola and ensured he died in prison. Fani-Kayode’s kinsmen did.
Yet, when the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) was formed as a vehicle to be used in actualising the June 12 mandate, the Ndubuisi Kanus, Ebitu Ukiwes, Ralph Obiohas of this country were in the driver’s seat.
So, what crime did the Igbo commit against the Yoruba? Ndigbo want to live in peace in their country and pursue their legitimate businesses. Is that a crime?
One thing that Fani-Kayode must appreciate is that Ndigbo cannot be wished away in Nigeria despite his crass irresponsibility.
Written By Ikechukwu Amaechi ikechukwuamaechi@yahoo.com
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(CNN) — No charges will be filed against George Zimmerman after an alleged altercation with his estranged wife and her father, Lake Mary, Florida, Police Chief Steve Bracknell said Monday.
"Shellie Zimmerman has declined prosecution (after consulting with her attorney)," Bracknell said.
George Zimmerman had been temporarily detained by police after Shellie Zimmerman told 911 Monday that he had threatened her and her father with a weapon.
On the 911 call, Shellie Zimmerman, who filed for divorce last week, is breathing heavily when she tells a dispatcher that Zimmerman is still at the house.
"He's in his car and he continually has his hand on his gun, and he's saying, 'Step closer.' He's just threatening all of us with his firearm," she says.
Shellie Zimmerman also tells 911 that George Zimmerman punched her father in the nose, then smashed her iPad before getting in his truck.
"I don't know what he's capable of. I'm really, really scared," she says.
Mark O'Mara, George Zimmerman's attorney and a CNN legal analyst, said, "There was heightened emotion, and a disagreement took place."
O'Mara said Shellie Zimmerman no longer lives at the house — which is owned by her father, David Bryant Dean — and had come to it to retrieve some belongings.
After he was initially detained by officers, George Zimmerman was interviewed at the house by detectives, Lake Mary police spokesman Zach Hudson said.
Zimmerman had offered to turn over surveillance tapes from security cameras at the house to investigators.
Shellie Zimmerman called 911 just after 2 p.m. ET, Bracknell said earlier.
George Zimmerman had a bodyguard in the truck with him when police arrived, Bracknell said.
Police had drawn their guns and told the bodyguard to "stand by out of the way."
Police said Dean spoke with first responders but was not treated by paramedics.
The incident comes two months after Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, was found not guilty of murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida.
George's brother, Robert, tweeted after his brother's detention that the public shouldn't "jump to conclusions."
Shellie Zimmerman's divorce filing last week in Seminole County came after she pleaded guilty to perjury on August 28 for lying about the state of the couple's finances during a bond hearing in April 2012. She had claimed she and her husband were broke, when in reality they had collected about $135,000 in donations.
Since his acquittal on July 13, George Zimmerman has been in the headlines several times. In late July, he reportedly helped a family escape from an overturned SUV. A report from the Seminole County Sheriff's Office confirmed his involvement.
More recently, Zimmerman has been pulled over in traffic twice. The first time, he was given a verbal warning for a traffic violation in Texas and reportedly told officers he had a firearm in his glove compartment. The second time was in Florida last week, when he was issued a $256 ticket for speeding.
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Femi Fani Kayode’s (FFK) cantankerousness in the past months is pretty bewildering and flustering. FFK, like some other foot-soldiers of the sly aging General and former President , Olusegun Obasanjo (e.g. El-Rufai, Ezekwesili etc) think that Obasanjo is some kind of god.
In their dejection and to cover the perceived rejection they feel have been meted out to them by the Jonathan Administration which save for Dr Okonjo-Iweala, has refused to enlist any of them in the new transformation agenda, these band of yesterday’s men have chosen to pummel the President, his presidency and his progressive agenda for Nigeria and Nigerians.
FFK calls OBJ a master strategist. That would have been fine with me IF FFK can explain to me where all that strategy was when OBJ could lost his ward, local government and state in the last elections of 2011. His strategy could not even win a seat for his daughter in the National Assembly.
These yesterday’s men and today’s loud mouthed goons kept mum when a sordid Third term agenda was being brewed and made ready for sale to Nigerians. Maybe that strategy worked at keeping them mum.
They all have one grouse with Jonathan. He has refused to bring THEM in.
IF they believe that they have the right to continue to malign and undermine the President, then kudos to them. Democracy is not a prerogative of one man but of the people whose right it is to make the choice of who will lead them and whether such a leader should lead by brawl, brawn or brains.
The likes of FFK should also not forget that while their master OBJ was saved from the gallows, cleaned, dusted up and then conscripted as President of Nigeria in 1999, President Jonathan is the beneficiary of a tremendous show of goodwill by the Nigerian people. His mandate therefore is to fulfill the promises he made to Nigerians NOT follow the avaricious demands of a band of retired generals who have at several points in our history, shortchanged our country, pilfered our resources and then damned the consequences while they retired to plush and posh mansions atop hills.
It was not the mastery of political strategy that saved Retired General Olusegun Obasanjo from the gallows of Abacha and eventually made his President. It was the Grace of the Almighty God. I believe that Femi Fani Kayode recognizes the power of that same God.
Mr President will therefore work hard to ensure that the majority of Nigerians reap the dividends of democracy and access a better life.
There may be crisis today in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) but which large party has not had its fair share of problems? We have seen parties such as Alliance for Democracy (AD) metamorphose into Action Congress (AC), and then into Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and then merge into APC. We have seen APP metamorphose into ANPP and then merge into APC. All these happened while PDP remained as one party.
President Jonathan is a man of great humility and an unbelievable ability to keep his calm even in the face of a storm. His ability to identify and balance the inherent critical interests, reconcile the warring parties and bring everyone together is not in doubt. He will most likely show to Nigerians that you do not need to witch hunt, blackmail, cajole and bully your political opponents for you to be called a political master strategist.
Fani Kayode will eat his words very soon. I pray he does that with a little more decency when the time comes for he is known to be pretty indecent in his responses to key issues. Ask Bianca Onoh.
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MY STATEMENT ABOUT BIANCA OJUKWU'S LAWSUIT AGAINST FEMI FANI-KAYODE (FFK)
Why Bianca is lying about her relationship with Femi Fani Kayode (FFK) during her late teens is perplexing. In the early 80's there were a group of now affluent Nigerians that flocked together as teens in London, Oxford, Cambridge in the UK and even Wales. We were teen couples. I dated Segun Cole, Lanre Tejuoso and Moji Okoya, Toyin Ojora and Bukola Saraki all became prominent married couples today. The Folawiyos, Adenirans, Lawrence twins, Olunloyo sisters and more as well as the Fani Kayode's were all known. Everyone knows about Femi and Governor Onoh's daughter.
I'm a daughter of a governor too and we all know each other. I've seen Bianca Onoh at numerous social events with Femi and even Femi's apartments in London, UK and these two almost got Married!!! Whatever teen to young adults do in a relationship, namely sex, dating, kissing etc, Femi and Bianca did too. I wasn't with them in their intimate moments but are we this immature to say that they have never even met? Femi does not like fighting women in public domains be it in person or online, in fact he fights for women and once took my back in a situation where a male demeaned me with lies. Femi is a faithful husband and a damn good father to his children.
I wrote two open letters to Bianca on my Facebook page/MadamGovernor and I certainly hope she drops these meaningless lawsuits as I am prepared to be called as a witness in such a case.
Madam Ambassador needs to take this personal controversy away from her job and the issue of tribalism which ensued from the so called ""Lagos-Igbo deportations.""
Many Igbo Nigerians are attacking this man and turning it a fiasco on social media. We have to remember what happened with our Yoruba ambassador to the United States Oluwole Rotimi who was fired by late Prez YarAdua for allegedly making statements about Biafra and Ojukwu which the late president called insurbodination. The Igbos pressured the President to remove a Yoruba US Ambassador and replace him.
I lived in the US 30 years and the whole Ambassadorial fiasco is not needed in 2013. Bianca, focus on your job, Igbo people, a Yoruba man has been intimate with your Queen, deal with it. There were lovers before the Ikemba. There shouldn't be lawsuits about who hit it first? The Igbo-Yoruba fiasco in Nigeria today is out of control. I represent some famous Igbos at my PR agency Keminications PR in US/Canada, so dont tell me I hate Igbos.
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The fracas over the representation of the former National Executive of the People’s Democratic Party of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, today at the Ikeja Division of the Lagos High court is testimonial of the confusion that consumed the party under Alhaji Bamanga Tukur.
The Ikeja Division of the Lagos High court under Justice Ganiyu S. Safari had on 2nd September, 2013 ordered both parties to maintain the status quo pending his determination of the motion on notice. He also directed that the defendants be served outside jurisdiction.
Again on Wednesday, September 4, 2013 a Federal court in Abuja reiterated the ruling of Justice Safari asking both parties to maintain status quo pending the hearing of the case.
In keeping with the ruling, the Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje executive obeyed the learned Judges but was shocked at the sealing up of its secretariat under the instructions of Inspector General of Police on 7th September, 2013 probably prompted by the Alh. Tukur’s faction of PDP Leadership in its usual fashion of lawlessness and supported by their cronies in government.
In view of the ruling ordering both parties to maintain the status quo pending the determination of the case, PDP national executive committee wishes to request the Inspector General of Police, M.D. Abubakar, to immediately unseal its National Secretariat in Abuja and allow it to operate unhindered.
In line with the resolve of the leadership of the PDP under Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje to respect and uphold democratic tenets and the rule of law and considering that the judiciary is the bastion of democracy and the last hope of the common man, the PDP once again approached the court to interpret its former ruling that two factions should maintain the status quo and assist us to decide on the legality or otherwise of the sealing off of our National Secretariat by the police on the orders of the Inspector General of Police but Alh. Tukur led faction of the party could not agree on a common Counsel to represent them thereby forcing the Lagos High Court to adjourned the case till 17th September, 2013.
Today, the High Court in Lagos once again ruled on the legitimacy of the PDP under the leadership of Baraje and maintained that the status quo be maintained until the determination of the motion on notice.
We wish to therefore appeal to the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, to immediately unseal the party’s National Secretariat to allow us continue our lawful activities and set our party on the path of victory in all the coming elections.
The party views the continued seal up of our offices as barbaric, undemocratic and an abuse and demonstration of naked power, the very elements that characterised Alh. Bamanga Tukur’s leadership.
No matter the odds, it is our resolve as a group to rescue PDP from the hands of undemocratic elements and draconian rule which have been the lot of our political party under the leadership of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur.
We remain committed to the vision of the founding fathers of our great party and will not be deterred in our determination to entrench democratic principles within our party irrespective of the odds and threat to our lives.
For the avoidance of doubt, we reiterate our determination and will to restore peace in the PDP. We wish to commend the judiciary for living up to its reputation as has been clearly shown by the decision of both the high court in Lagos and Abuja.
We are indebted to Nigeria and appreciate the goodwill we have enjoyed in our quest to rebuild and sustain the greatest party in Africa. We understand that leadership is a sacred trust and therefore commit to a people focussed and people centred leadership under our chairman Alhaji Kawu- Baraje.
We appeal to all our party men to be calm, loyal and desist from making any inflammatory statement that may undermine the efforts of the Peace Committee of the elders of the party under the leadership of His Excellency, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR.
We are certain that posterity will judge us fairly and that all this too shall come to pass in a matter of time.
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On Saturday, September 6, 2013, the Delta State Commissioner for Education (Basic and Secondary), Professor Patrick Muoboghare, was viciously attacked by some elements among the youth at a meeting in Ughelli North Local Government Area.
What was scheduled as a peaceful meeting among political groups in the area was hijacked by a few misguided youths that took advantage of the atmosphere of camaraderie to inflict bodily harm on Prof. Muoboghare.
The commissioner was wounded from a knife attack, but thankfully, he was immediately taken to hospital where doctors attended to him. Prof. Muoboghare is stable, recuperating and responding to treatment. He is not and was never in coma.
We unreservedly condemn the unprovoked attack on the commissioner. Arrests have been made by the police and perpetrators of the crime will face the full wrath of the law. At a time that Delta State has emerged as one of the most peaceful states in the country, the unfortunate incident belies the perception of the youth as the successor generation among the political class that should usher an era of tolerance in politics.
We hereby urge Deltans, especially youth to eschew violence in all their conduct as attacks on persons under any guise is a criminal act punishable under Nigerian laws.
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Widow of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and Nigeria's Ambassador to Spain, Mrs Bianca Ojukwu has rejected Chief Femi Fani-Kayode's withdrawal of his comments made about her in the social media and a national daily, saying that the former Aviation minister's statement was only a riposte.
The former aide to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo had in his article entitled, "Neither a tribalist nor a hater" claimed to have had "intimate relationship" with three Igbo ladies, including Mrs Ojukwu as a spinster, a claim the ambassador said was a lie and only aimed at tarnishing her image.
Consequently, Mrs Ojukwu, through her lawyers, Wall Street Attorneys, wrote to Fani-Kayode on August 27, demanding that he retract his statements and offer an unreserved apology to her in The Sun and Thisday newpapers, giving the former minister up to September 6, to do so.
But when Fani-Kayode on September 6 withdrew his comments in the two newspapers, he insisted that he knew Mrs Ojukwu in the 1980s and that some of those who knew she was his girlfriend are still living.
But two days after his response, Mrs Ojukwu has insisted that she did not know Chief Fani-Kayode as she had not met him before.
The wife of the late Igbo leader, who spoke through her Personal Assistant, Mr Isaac Igboanu, therefore, said the retraction made by Chief Fani-Kayode last Friday was not sufficient and satisfactory.
Rejecting Chief Fani-Kayode's comments in the two newspapers, her personal assistant said:
"The attention of Her Excellency, Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu has been drawn to a statement purportedly issued by Chief Femi Fani-Kayode through one Mr Akinola Babatunde Rotimi and published in the Daily Sun and ThisDay Newspapers of September 6, 2013.
"The phantom claim in the said statement that Chief Femi Fani-Kayode and Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu were once good friends to the knowledge of mutual friends who are still alive is not only false, baseless and typical, but a further attempt by Chief Femi Fani-Kayode to create the impression of a connection between himself and Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu.
"Whilst it is important to reiterate that Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu has never met Chief Femi Kayode and does not know him in person, it is pertinent to note that the statement issued through Mr Akinola Babatunde Rotimi, falls far short of an apology and retraction of Chief Femi Fani-Kayode's false and libelous outbursts and is merely a desperate attempt to lend credence to fabrications, which he seeks to present as reality with intent to gloss over the very serious issues arising from the reckless publication.
"In the circumstances, Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu is left with no option than to leave the matter in the hands of her lawyers."
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