[Ethnic Bigot] Fani-kayode Withdraws "Intimate Relationship" Comments On Bianca Ojukwu

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A week after Bianca Ojukwu threatened a lawsuit over an "intimate relationship" comment about her, Nigeria's former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has withdrawn the controversial comment.
In a statement through his lawyer, Rotimi Akinola, on Thursday, Mr. Fani-Kayode accepted that he erred by making the comment but said it was "bizarre, absurd and inexplicable" that the wife of the late Biafran warlord, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, claimed they were never acquainted.
"As our client said earlier through his press secretary some of the words he used to describe his friendship with Ambassador Ojukwu in his article titled "A Word For Those Who Call Me A Tribalist" were indiscreet," Mr. Fani-Kayode's lawyer said in the statement.
"He hereby withdraws those words," he added.

The former minister, who was also a spokesman of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, insisted that he knew Bianca in the...

early mid-80s when he was a student at the London and Cambridge Universities respectively.

He noted that they were good friends at the time and had a few mutual friends who are still alive till date.

The statement stated that though he had not seen Bianca for over 25 years, he spoke to her on the phone when her husband passed on last year.

Fani-Kayode had in an article titled: 'Neither a Tribalist Nor a Hater,' published in the Leadership Newspaper of Augusts 16 edition to defend himself over his write-up on the relocation of some Igbo to Anambra State by the Lagos State Government, alleging  that he had “a long standing and intimate relationship with Bianca Onoh."

But Bianca had through an advertorial published in some national newspapers, demanded an apology and a complete retraction of the statement within seven days or she would institute a legal action against the former minister.

The Fani-Kayode statement read: “Our client knew Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu in the early to mid-80's when he was a student at London University and Cambridge University respectively.

“They were good friends at the time and they had a few mutual friends who are still alive today. The bizarre, absurd and inexplicable assertion that they were not friends and that Ambassador Ojukwu has never met our client is patently false.
“Though he has not seen her for over 25 years, he spoke to her on the phone when her husband passed on last year. As our client said earlier through his press secretary, some of the words he used to describe his friendship with her in his article titled: 'A Word For Those Who Call Me A Tribalist' were indiscreet. He hereby withdraws them."

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