I Came Into A Deeply Divided Family -Bianca Ojukwu

Bianca Ojukwu has explained to a foreign based Journalist, Ekerete
Udoh who now writes for Vanguard how her husband knew there would be crisis after
his death and how he had made sure most of her inheritance is bequeathed to her
by the Deed of Gift. So prior to his death, most of those gifts had already been
registered under her name, she said. 

Her words;

“I came into a deeply divided family – a lot of my husband’s
relatives, I never saw physically before he died. Ojukwu Transport Company
issues have been in court, they still have not resolved the issues concerning
their father’s wealth, and this was an issue that started in 1966.. I am very
comfortable if not for anything, for being the daughter of Chief C.C.Onoh, and
my father took care of me, so the issue is not just about their family. But my
husband was also a very serious person, so he anticipated all what is happening
now by making sure that the most of my inheritance is bequeathed to me by the
Deed of Gift, so prior to his death, most of those gifts had already been
registered under my name.

But I will say that at the end of the day, it’s not a
question of acquisition, all I am saying is that I am the only wife that he
wedded, first and foremost, at the Kaduna registry as witnessed by his friend,
the late Clement Akpamgbo, and we had a small reception after the event at Apo
Quarters, in Abuja. After the registry marriage, we went through the Catholic
marriage at Our Lady Queen of Nigeria Catholic Church in Abuja, and it was
officiated by the then Arch Bishop Onaiyekan- then the Archbishop of Abuja
Diocese.

We finally went through the full traditional marriage in my
father’s compound that literally had all the traditional titled chiefs,
paramount    rulers of the community in
attendance. The five governors of the eastern states at the time were present,
ambassadors were in attendance. The Abuja wedding for instance was almost a
state wedding. So the evidence is there for all to see, and when you are faced
with that situation, and you have been properly married, and you have off
springs from that union, but purely because they want to cheat your offsprings
of their inheritance, in addition to other things, by virtue of their being the
youngest, any mother would do all she can to protect them. They have hurled all
sorts of vitriol and outlandish claims about me- the most laughable has been
what they claim that I was not legally married to my husband. I mean, this is a
marriage that took place in 1994 and not 1884; so the evidence, the videos,
media reports are there for everyone to see.”