A 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. Continue after the cut...
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 contested
in court.
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