A week after Bianca Ojukwu threatened a
lawsuit over an “intimate relationship” comment about her, Nigeria’s former
Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has withdrawn the controversial comment.
In a statement through his lawyer, Rotimi Akinola, on Thursday, Mr. Fani-Kayode
accepted that he erred by making the comment but said it was “bizarre, absurd
and inexplicable” that the wife of the late Biafran warlord, Chukwuemeka
Odumegwu-Ojukwu, claimed they were never acquainted. More after the cut…
“As
our client said earlier through his press secretary some of the words he used
to describe his friendship with Ambassador Ojukwu in his article titled “A Word
For Those Who Call Me A Tribalist” were indiscreet. He hereby withdraws those
words. 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.”
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