Director, 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.
Ojukwu, who was the Ikemba of Nnewi, had directed, in his Will, that Bianca, should replace him as a trustee of OTL.
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.”
The clarification by Ifeukwu, who is based in
Boston, United States, came as counsel for the late Ikemba, Chief Emeka
Onyemelukwe, insisted that the Will read last Friday at the Enugu State
High Court Registrar was authentic and sacrosanct.
Onyemelukwe,
who was reacting to a claim by Emeka Ojukwu Jnr. that the Will was
manipulated, 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.
Onyemelukwe,
who tendered documents at a press conference in Enugu to back his
argument, 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 papers were still with him, 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 constested in court.
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