PLEASE TRY AGAIN LATER: YOUR RETRACTION WASN’T SATISFACTORY – BIANCA OJUKWU TELLS FANI-KAYODE

The attempt by Chief Femi Fani-Kayode to retract his statement about having an intimate relationship with Bianca Ojukwu has been considered as meagre and inadequate by the latter.

Mrs Ojukwu, Nigeria’s Ambassador to Spain, rejected Fani-Kayode’s withdrawal of the assertions he made about her in an article which was circulated on social media and in a national daily. Ojukwu also added that Chief Fani-Kayode’s statement was only a “angry reply”. In his statement, “A Word For Those Who Call Me A Tribalist” 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.

This led to the present situation as Mrs Ojukwu, reportedly, 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.

(READ: I have NEVER met Fani-Kayode – Bianca Ojukwu speaks out, demands a retraction)

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.

(Fani-Kayode withdraws ‘intimate relationship’ comment about Bianca Ojukwu)

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. “In the circumstances, Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu is left with no option than to leave the matter in the hands of her lawyers.”