The battle
continues:FFK & Bianca Ojukwu may be heading to court…
Yep,
these two maybe going to court because Bianca Ojukwu has rejected Femi Fani
Kayode's non- apology. Femi issued a statement last week withdrawing his
earlier claims that they had an 'intimate relationship' in the past but
Bianca's lawyers said the retraction was not sufficient and satisfactory and have
decided to go to court. Femi Fani Kayode this morning responded to Bianca's
lawsuit threat, insisting that he didn't lie and threatened to reveal details
of his 'relationship with her. Like Bianca, he has also issued a statement
threatening to sue. Read Mrs Ojukwu's statement below, issued via her personal
assistant, and find FFK's response after the cut...
“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.”
Femi Fani Kayode's
statement...
"We read the
comments of the P.A. to Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu in the Sun Newspaper of 9th
September and in a number of other newspapers where she expressed the view that
the withdrawal of the comments made about her by Chief Femi Fani-Kayode were
''not enough''. We really do wonder what Mrs. Ojukwu really wants from Chief
Fani-Kayode and what her agenda really is? Throughout this matter Chief
Fani-Kayode has chosen the path of peace and has attempted to avoid an ugly and
public quarrel with Bianca Ojukwu out of respect to the memory of her late
father Chief C.C. Onoh and the memory of her late husband, Dim Emeka
Odumegwu-Ojukwu . Consequently he has publiclly apologised to her and the two
other igbo ladies that he mentioned in the said article (namely Miss Chioma Ansoh
and Miss Adaobi Ucgegbu) on two separate occassions, in three separate national
newspapers and online. He has has also publically withdrawn the words that they
found offensive, he has edited the said article, he has ensured that no
newspaper in Nigeria that published it mentioned their names in the revised
version, he has admitted that the word ''intimate'' that was used in the online
version of the article was ''indiscreet'' and he has bent over backwards to
tread the path of peace and to appease all those concerned. Despite all these
efforts Bianca Ojukwu has refused to be appeased or to let go and she has
continued to peddle the shameless lie that she has never met Chief Fani-Kayode.
This is sad and unfortunate and it is beyond the imagination of anyone that a
serving Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria would so readily and so
easily be given to telling such lies. Chief Fani-Kayode is not comfortable with
publiclly joining issues with ladies when it comes to matters of a private
nature such as this because he was well brought up and he is a gentleman but it
is clear that Bianca Ojukwu is desperate to go to war over this issue and to
cover up the truth about their past. It is also clear that she has constituted
herself into the arrowhead of a group of people that are determined to use her
and this whole unsavoury episode to attempt to distract attention from the
wider and more important issues raised in the essay and to discredit him. Since
that is the case we welcome whatever action Ojukwu wishes to take in court and
we shall gladly meet her there. We will also be instigating our own legal
proceedings against her in due course for her barefaced and malicious lies and
her consistent claim that she has never met Chief Fani-Kayode all in an attempt
to libel, defame, diminish and discredit him before the entire world. We wish
to state clearly and categorically that not only did Chief Fani-Kayode know her
but he also knew her far better than she cares to publiclly admit. The precise
nature of that relationship will be explored and exposed in open court. It is
not in the nature of Chief Fani-Kayode to fight unecessary and distractive
battles over flippant matters such as this but on this occassion he has been
compelled to do so simply because he will do whatever it takes to protect his
integrity and establish the fact that he has told no lie. Since she has
continued her shameless perfidy and wishes to tread the path of deceit and
confrontation then so be it. Finally let it be clearly understood that at no
point did Chief Fani-Kayode lie about the nature of his relationship with
Ojukwu. However he did not feel that it was appropiate or necessary to share
the details of that relationship with the public because he felt that such
matters were strictly private. The fact that she mistook his mature exercise of
restraint and discretion, even when provoked and insulted, his desire for peace
and his gentlemanly nature for weakness is not only unfortunate but also a
grave miscalculation on her part. Once again we reiterate the fact that we
counsel Ojukwu to take whatever course of action she pleases and we welcome
this opportunity to expose her for what she is. The matter has been referred to
our lawyers for final preparation. They will prepare a vigorous defence to
Ojukwu's absurd allegations and they will also determine our next line of
action against her''- Mr. Tosin Emmanuel, p.a. to Chief Femi Fani-Kayode
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