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.
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.
Source: PUNCH
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