15 BILLIONAIRES TO FUND BIANCA'S ELECTION - OHAKIM

Chief Ikedi Ohakim, a former Governor of Imo State, has stated that no fewer than 15 Igbo billionaires have been mobilised to fund the senatorial race of the widow of late Igbo leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, Bianca Ojukwu. He made this statement at Ekwulobia in the Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State during a stakeholders’ meeting of the All Progressives Grand Alliance in the Anambra South Senatorial district and urged the Igbo race not to watch the wife of their leader be intimidated by anybody in any circumstance.

Furthermore, he advised those aspiring to contest the position with Bianca to have a rethink, stressing that it would be a setback to the Igbo and a disservice to Ojukwu for anybody to work against the interest of his widow and in fact any member of his family in general.

This is what he said: “Those who are contesting the poll with the wife of our leader may have the money and wherewithal to muzzle down Bianca but they don’t have the same integrity. Bianca Ojukwu is not an ordinary human being, she is a spirit. She has double-barreled identity and double-barreled legacy. We have mobilised 15 Igbo billionaires to sponsor her ambition and over 25,000 youths to work for her.”

He also added “The people of Imo, Abia, Ebonyi, Enugu, have asked me to beg you (Anambra) to accomplish this mission and project in memory of our great leader, Dim Chkwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. Ojukwu sacrificed his Oxford education, his personal comfort, his father’s wealth to save the Igbo race at the most auspicious time”.

In addition, when asked why she was vying for Senate, Bianca said that she was going to the Senate to accomplish the dream of her late husband of giving the Igbo a voice in national polity.