“Bianca is neither a trustee member nor a Director of OTL” - Ifeukwu Ojukwu

The controversy over the late Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu-Ojukwu's Will, continues to get deep as the Director of Ojukwu Transport Company Limited, (OTL) has refused the wife, Bianca, of directorship or trusteeship of the company. Earlier on Friday last week, when Ojukwu's Will was read, the late Ikemba of Nnewi, directed his wife, Bianca, should replace him as a trustee of Ojukwu Transport Company Limited, OTL. But in a different twist, the Director of the Transport Company, 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. 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." Earlier this week, Emeka Ojukwu Jnr. had contested the authenticity of the Will presented and read by Chief Emeka Onyemelukwe, who insisted that the Will read last Friday at the Enugu State High Court Registrar was authentic and sacrosanct. in his reaction to Emeka's claim, Onyemelukwe, 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. To further prove the authenticity of the document, Onyemelukwe, at a press conference in Enugu 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 document were still in his possession, 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.