Ikemba Dim Ojukwu returns soon

Posted by admin National Politics, Raw Politics Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

The family of ailing ex-Biafran warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, has dismissed as a blatant lie and cheap blackmail, claims by his first son, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu Jnr, on December 23, that his father is still lying critically ill in a London hospital in the same condition he left the country.

Speaking through its lawyer, Chief (Sir) Emeka Onyemelukwe, the family said Ojukwu’s health had greatly improved and he would return home soon, all things being equal. The 77-year-old Ikemba Nnewi was flown to St. Mary’s Hospital in London in December last year after he was rushed to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Itiku Ozalla, Enugu State, following an ailment related to stroke.

Onyemelukwe, a close confidant and kinsman of Ojukwu, told Daily Sun that the Ezeigbo Gburugburu was down with stroke had a low sugar level when he was taken to the UNTH, making the doctors at the hospital to then boost his sugar level. However, when Ojukwu was taken to London the doctors at St. Mary’s Hospital discovered that his sugar level had risen astronomically beyond the normal level, making them to force it down again.

But the lawyer said the Ikemba had now recovered taken to the gym every morning for physiotherapy exercise at the New Crownwell Hospital, also in London, where he had been moved. A two-page type-written position of the family entitled, “Emeka Ojukwu Jr.’s outburst, cheap blackmail and debauchery,” and exclusively made available to Daily Sun, reads: “My attention has been drawn to Emeka Ojukwu Jr’s unfortunate press release in some of our daily newspapers.

As the lawyer and a close confidant to Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, I have the mandate of the family to correct the unfortunate scenario created by Emeka Ojukwu Jr. about the health condition of the father.
“One is at a loss, what he had intended to achieve by painting such a wrong, sordid photograph of the condition of his father’s health. Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s health has greatly improved. He is now taken every morning to the gym for physiotherapy exercise.

This was the condition of Dim’s health when Emeka Jr visited London. “If he were in that ‘bad condition’, no one would take him to the gym. This is a basic truth health-wise. His posting a ‘sorry’ photograph of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu in some national dailies is quite unfortunate. That photograph does not reflect Ikemba’s state of health now.

“Emeka Jr. visited London and stayed for 10 days. Out of those 10 days, he was in the hospital once for the period less than 25 minutes. Dim Odumegwu-Ojukwu was flown to London in December 2010, only to be visited by Emeka Jr three and half months later in March 2011.

“However, our further investigation reveals that Emeka Jr’s target was the leadership of APGA, whom in his narrow thinking, he sought to blackmail. Unfortunately, it has boomeranged. He should have been thanking the Governor of Anambra State, who has contributed in no small measure in keeping Ikemba alive today.

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