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Director of Ojukwu Transport Company Limited has said the wife of the
late Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu-Ojukwu, Bianca, has no
place on the directorship or trusteeship of the company.
Director,
Mr. Ifeukwu Ojukwu, said on Monday that since OTL was owned by the late
Sir Louis Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the late Biafran warlord could not dictate
who the trustees or directors of the company should be.
Ojukwu, who was the Ikemba of Nnewi, had directed, in his Will, that Bianca, should replace him as a trustee of OTL.
Ifeukwu
said, “Bianca is neither a trustee member nor a Director of OTL and it
is good to note that OTL is a different property from the things the
late Ikemba Ojukwu had and the directorship cannot be transferred
through a Will.”
The
clarification by Ifeukwu, who is based in Boston, United States, came
as counsel for the late Ikemba, Chief Emeka Onyemelukwe, insisted that
the Will read last Friday at the Enugu State High Court Registrar was
authentic and sacrosanct.
Onyemelukwe,
who was reacting to a claim by Emeka Ojukwu Jnr. that the Will was
manipulated, said the Will was registered in the Enugu High Court on
July 9, 2005, while the codicil, which was to give details and correct
any mistakes in the Will, was dated December 16, 2009.
Onyemelukwe,
who tendered documents at a press conference in Enugu to back his
argument, stated that he had been close to the late Ojukwu since his
return from exile in Cote d’Ivoire in 1982.
He
said all Ojukwu’s legal papers were still with him, including those of
properties and chattels willed to Emeka Jnr, who claimed he did not
know him as his father’s lawyer or friend.
Meanwhile,
Ojukwu Jnr. has taken over his father’s residence in Nnewi, “according
to the Igbo tradition that the first son would inherit his father’s
house and compound on the event of his death.”
Ojukwu
(Jnr.) said even if the Will had not covered the Nnewi residence, it
was traditionally statutory that the first son inherits his father’s
house.
He also said other contents of the Will could be constested in court.
Punch Nigeria
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