The Ojukwu family have asked Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu to show proof of legal marriage

 

The Ojukwu family have asked Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu to show proof of legal marriage to the late Biafran warlord, Emeka Odimegwu-Ojukwu. the Ojukwu brothers and OTL, in a 19-paragraph statement of defence filed before Justice Funmilayo Atilade of a Lagos High Court, also demanded proof of the paternity of Bianca’s two sons, Afamefuna and Nwachukwu.

Bianca had, on behalf of her sons, sued Prof. Joseph Ojukwu, Emmanuel Ojukwu, Lotanna Putalora Ojukwu, Dr Patrick Ojukwu, Edward Ojukwu, Lota Akajiora Ojukwu and Mrs Massey Udegbe, seeking a declaration that her children were entitled to 29, Oyinkan Abayomi Street, Ikoyi, until the harmonisation of the management and administration of the assets of OTL.

Bianca’s lawyer Chris Ezugwu prayed the court to declare as illegal the threat of forceful ejection of her sons from the property.

But, the defendants, through their lawyer, George Uwechue (SAN) said the subscribers of the Memorandum of Association of OTL (1st defendant) at incorporation in 1952 were L.P Ojukwu and Betram Chukwuemeka Obi, adding that the late Odimegwu-Ojukwu and Prof Joseph Ojukwu (2nd defendant) were later appointed as directors in 1953.

They said the late Odimegwu-Ojukwu ceased to be a director of the company prior to the civil war and was reappointed a director on December 16, 2005.

The defendants said: “The property belong to the first defendant (OTL). The fact is that the claimants’ mother, being greedy, felt she could hold onto the first defendant’s property. For over 12 years prior to his death, the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu moved to Enugu and since then had not lived at the first defendant’s property as alleged by the claimants.”