Mrs Bianca Ojukwu has rejected Chief Femi Fani-Kayode’s withdrawal of
his comments wherein he claimed he had an intimate relationship with her
in his article Neither a tribalist nor a hater” saying that the Fani’s
statement was only a riposte.
Fani-Kayode on September 6 withdrew his comments in the two newspapers
after he was given a 7 day ultimatum by Bianca’s lawyers to retract his
statements and offer an unreserved apology to her in The Sun and Thisday
newpapers. However, Kayode in his statement 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.
Bianca, 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.
Her personal assistant said:
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.”
0 comments:
Post a Comment