Ojukwu claimed he has a copy of the original will written by his father
and not what he called the "fraud" presented to them as Ojukwu's will.
Speaking at his country home in Nnewi, Anambra State, the late Igbo
leader's son maintained that his late father's will was altered in
favour of his step mother.
His words: “There have been rumours up to yesterday that there is an
attempt to read the will and that they intend to make changes in the
original will. Well, I have not seen the will that they read.
“Now there are issues that come to mind. Why were there no members of
Ojukwu family when the will was read? They were not invited and they
were not told.
“She was here last Sunday when we removed the mourning cloth and since
she knows that the will would be read she would have invited us or even
put us on notice.
“Now the lawyer that is supposedly doing all this things is not our
father’s lawyer. Mr Onyekwelu is not a lawyer that is known to the
family as Ezeigbo’s lawyer. Remember when Ezeigbo was sick the same
lawyer went to the press to claim that Ezeigbo was recuperating and that
was not true.
"It is still the same lawyer that claimed to have custody of the will.
And I told everybody that it was not true and that since my father was
flown to England he never lifted an arm or spoken a word until his death
finally.
“How can the lawyer claim that he is Ezeigbo's lawyer when he had
already taken sides with Bianca and doing the woman’s biddings and why
would the will be read in Enugu instead of in Anambra State? You can see
all elements of suspicion in the matter."
Ojukwu insisted that the family members have the original copy of
Ojukwu’s will and know that what was read was a contradiction.
“We have the original copy of the will and we know where it is, even if
you want to make some changes in the will it should be done before the
beneficiaries and seeking their consent. Furthermore, when a will is
amended without the presence of the people involved but only the
presence of the person who would ultimately benefit from the changes,
then it is a fraud and a charade.”
Reacting to the willing of Ojukwu Transport Limited, Emeka explained
that Bianca is currently in court with OTL where she used the names of
her two sons to drag the company to court.
“The claim that my father transferred his trustee membership to Bianca
is false. First of all, my father Ojukwu was not a trustee. His position
in OTL is that of a director not trustee. The position of director
cannot be transferred to anybody. Even if it is transferred to me it
would not hold. There is a laid down law or procedure for one to become a
director in the transport company.
“For you to be director in Ojukwu Transport you must have Ojukwu blood
and not through marriage into Ojukwu family. You have to have at least
10 shares. And you have to be voted into directorship by the board of
trustees and a woman cannot be a director. Also if you are a public
servant you cannot be a director and even if Bianca is a director she
has to resign because she is now a public servant by virtue of the fact
that she is now an ambassador.
“There was a time my father has to resign as director and later he was
reinstated as one when he stopped being a public servant .So there are
many reasons why this claim is spurious.
“The person that is claiming that the directorship was bestowed on her
is right now in court suing Ojukwu Transport in the name of her two
sons. There is a lawsuit right now, and it is in the public domain,
where she is using the names of her two sons to sue the company.”
Emeka also confirmed that the mysterious girl that benefited from the
will is his father’s daughter, adding that his father Ojukwu had told
him about the girl before now.
“My father had earlier told me about the girl in question and told me
all that had happened before he died. So she is not a stranger and in
the original will she was mentioned by my father.”
A night before the will was read, Ojukwu recalled that he was away to
attend a funeral ceremony when his security guards at the gate phoned to
report that the Anambra Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Mr
Robert Okonkwo had driven into the compound and carted away Bianca’s
property from Ojukwu’s main house. This, he noted, was a confirmation
that Bianca had a premonition that the will would be read the following
day and that Ojukwu’s main house would be willed to him as the first
son.
Source: Thisday Live
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