Bianca Chides Obiano As An Ingrate Destroying Ojukwu’s Legacies

By Benson Chukwuemeka

The second Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Memorial Lecture turned dramatic after the widow of the civil war leader, Bianca Ojukwu flayed the bearer of his political mantle, Governor Willie Obiano as an ingrate for absenting himself from the lecture.

Mrs. Ojukwu’s denunciation was immediately challenged by a member of the Board of Trustees, BOT of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka who said Obiano’s dispatch of his deputy to represent him was fitting enough.

The memorial lecture was chaired by Senator Ike Ekweremadu, the immediate past Deputy President of the Senate while the lecture was delivered by 2019 presidential candidate of Young Progressive Party, YPP, Prof. Kingsley Moghalu.

Obiano is the chairman of the BOT of APGA, the political party Ojukwu the platform on which Ojukwu made two presidential bids and served as its living oracle.

Expressing outrage at the absence of Obiano at the lecture which took place in his state, at the Ben Nwazojie Auditorium, of the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam campus, Mrs. Ojukwu alleged that her husband’s political and other legacies are under threat with Obiano as governor.

“Somebody should tell Governor Willie Obiano that he is allowing Ojukwu’s legacies to be under threat, why will he be absent from this lecture, he is behaving like an ingrate.

“You should tell the Governor that the legacies of Ojukwu are under threat under his watch, including the party he rode to power, he should watch his actions.”

But responding, Chief Ezeonwuka, an APGA BoT member said:

“Members of APGA Board of Trustees take exception to the outburst by wife of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu, over her comment that Governor Obiano is an ingrate.

“A Governor who sent his Deputy to represent him in a programme has registered his presence and if Ojukwu’s widow is not happy that the governor was not physically present, she should understand that his deputy was present.

“We in APGA board of trustee are not happy, Bianca is a member of our party’s board of trustees, we are not condemning her, but we are condemning the statement she made that the governor is an ingrate, because whatever position anyone finds himself, is God that makes it possible not man.

“Am not sure that any problem exist between the Governor and Bianca or Ojukwu’ family but if there is any, here is not the place to say it, we did not come here to play politics, but to remember and celebrate Ojukwu’s birth day with a memorial lecture.

Chairman of the occasion and former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu in his opening remark said that Ndigbo are not happy in the contemporary Nigeria, adding that they have not been given their pride of place in the politics of the country.

In his lecture titled Ndigbo in the Contemporary Nigerian Politics, problems, progress, prospects and the way forward, Guest Lecturer, and the Presidential Candidate of Young Progressives Party, YPP, Prof. Kingsley Muoghala, said that Nigerians are treating Igbo people in the contemporary Nigeria as if they all woke up one morning and decided secession.

He said that the circumstances at the time that led Dim Ojukwu to attempt for secession justified his action because he could not have done otherwise when jus people were humiliated and unfairly treated. 

“Those who are condemning or are blaming  Dim Ojukwu for the attempt for secession are those who thrive in naieviety, Ojukwu answered the call to duty and rose to responsibility at that time as the leader of Ndigbo.

‘Almost all the things that led Ojukwu to lead the secession are still happening today. Igbo are being discriminated in many things including having president of Nigeria of Igbo extraction.”

Prof. Moughalu regretted that instead of Nigeria to face its problems and address them, they are busy labelling the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, a terrorist group when the real terrorist groups are busy killing and maiming the people.

“IPOB is a cry for justice, we should not neglect that fact and be branding them terrorist, Nigeria must look into their agitations and there will be no peace without Justice, if you have promised Ndigbo that you will give them power after the sitting president, that promise must be kept otherwise peace will not reign, the moment of justice is coming in 2023.

“For peace to reign in Nigeria and the country makes progress, there must be restructuring, and Nigerians must sit down and look one and another eye ball to eye ball and agree on how to live together, and there must be equity and justice, and there must be Nigerian President of Igbo extraction in 2023.

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