Anambra South Senatorial ambition and Petiness: Ojukwu’s Children Vow Not to Support Bianca's Senate Ambition
www.odogwublog.com reports that envy and pettiness has crept into the ambition for senatorial run by Anambra South contenders with people of Nnewi talking childishly or so?
The senatorial ambition of the wife of the late Biafra
warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu yesterday faced a major setback as
some members of the family vowed not to support her even if she emerges the
candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) for the 2019 general
election.
Speaking with journalists in an interview, Dr. Ike
Ojukwu, who is one of the directors of Ojukwu Transport Company Limited,
believes that it will be a let down to allow a woman from Ngwo in Enugu State
to represent Anambra South senatorial district where you have several prominent
people in the Senate.
Ojukwu asked: "Is she from Nnewi? She is from
Ngwo in Enugu State. If you ask me, I would prefer someone who is a son of the
soil, and because I come from Nnewi, I would like an Nnewi indigene to
represent us."
According to Emeka Odimegwu Ojukwu (jnr), "she is
apparently coming out under APGA and that is APGA's business. They can decide
on whoever they want to bring out it is really, that should not be my business
as far as I am concerned but I do find it curious that you want somebody from
Enugu State to come and represent us at Anambra South.
Further, Ojukwu said: "A young woman who was
supposedly married to my father who is late. A young woman who could remarry
tomorrow maybe from Abia State or later from Sokoto State. And you want her to
come and represent us. I wonder if there are no other people in Anambra South
that can represent us.
"Has anybody asked Odimegwu household whether we
believe in her to represent us? This is a woman we don’t interact with. She
doesn’t talk to us. She can’t cross into our properties. She can’t cross our
gate in the village. She doesn’t associate with the members of the family.
"There are certain questions that would have been
asked before moving in that particular direction. Like I said, APGA is free to
field whoever they want to field. And I know that APC is trying to field a very
credible candidate and when we get to the field of justice we will see what
happens," Ojukwu added.
Also speaking, a legal practitioner Chief Debe
Odimegwu Ojukwu, who is also a member of the Ojukwu family, when asked if
Bianca was legally married to his father late Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu,
said If you ask me as a lawyer, I would say no. why I said no is that there are
so many marriages, even when you look at Nollywood, there are many marriages
everyday but that does not make it legal.
"Why I am arguing this is because there was a
woman my father married in a court not my even mother, and that marriage was
never nullified, and my training as a lawyer tells me that when there is a
subsisting marriage, subsequent marriage or attempt at marriage becomes null
and void."
Anambra South Senatorial ambition and Petiness: Ojukwu’s Children Vow Not to Support Bianca's Senate Ambition
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