Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has withdrawn the controversial comment he made a week after Bianca Ojukwu threatened to sue him for him saying they had an "intimate relationship"

The Ex-Minister of Culture and Tourism who hasn't seen Bianca for over 25 years, but spoke to her on the phone when her husband passed on last year insisted they were good friends in the early mid 80s and in his words "The bizarre, absurd and inexplicable assertion that they were not friends and that Ambassador Ojukwu has never met our client is patently false.
In a statement he released through his lawyer, Rotimi Akinola, on Thursday, Mr. Fani-Kayode accepted that he erred by making the comment but said it was "bizarre, absurd and inexplicable" that the wife of the late Biafran warlord, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, claimed they were never acquainted.
"As our client said earlier through his press secretary some of the words he used to describe his friendship with Ambassador Ojukwu in his article titled "A Word For Those Who Call Me A Tribalist" were indiscreet," Mr. Fani-Kayode's lawyer said in the statement.
"He hereby withdraws those words," he added.
Meanwhile it was learnt that several highly placed concerned Nigerians have been reaching out to both Mr. Fani-Kayode and Mrs. Ojukwu with the aim of trying to bring their differences to a peaceful end.
One of the peace-makers pleaded not to be named said both parties were cooperating with the efforts at reconciling them.
He said the statement by Mr. Fani-Kayode's lawyer was part of the measures suggested by the mediators.
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