Dear All:
The chips are falling together: Here is the latest on this interesting saga, with The Sun being updated by lawyer Onyemelukwe, :
1. Debe Sylvester showed up in Dim Ojukwu's life AFTER his mother died - and he could not point to his family roots. Hence he did not accept him publicly - according to Onyemelukwe.
2. Tenny Haman was made so "secret" because she might have been a product of a tryst with a MARRIED woman (Mrs. Haman) - read "Tunde's
eye-witness report below....
3. Emeka was not left more property from the Will because he had ALREADY been left much during DIm Ojukwu's life.
4. Dim Ojukwu felt that Bianca stil had his young children to fend for for a long time - so he left much for her AND his children.
My own latest conclusion? The Will might be authentic after all.....final answer until new evidence points otherwise.
And there you have it.....interesting stuff.
Bolaji Aluko
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THE SUN
No going back on Ojukwu's Will – Lawyer
Our Reporter December 4, 2012 
•Says document is genuine
By DAVID ONWUCHEKWA, Nnewi
The controversial Will of the late Ikemba Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu which was read last Friday at the Probate Registry of the Enugu State High Court has been described as sacrosanct by Chief Emeka Onyemelukwe, the family lawyer. Chief Onyemelukwe disclosed this yesterday in Enugu when he told reporters that he was the personal lawyer, close associate and confidant of the late leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Ezeigbo gburu gburu who died in a London hospital on November 26, 2011. He said the clarification became necessary in view of what he described as some uncomplimentary reports attributed to some members of the Ojukwu dynasty including one of the sons, Emeka Jnr.
He 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. Tendering various documents, most of them legal papers and court briefs and motions where he was copiously authorized and mandated to draft, sign and or represent the late sage in courts and at other such important occasions, Onyemelukwe said that he had been close to the Ikemba since his return from exile in Cote d' Ivoire many years ago.
He said virtually all Ojukwu's legal papers remained in his custody till date, including those properties and chattels willed to Emeka Jnr, who he said now claimed he never knew him as his father's lawyer. He described Ojukwu Jnr's assertion that he did not know him as unfortunate, "even when I was the Master of Ceremony at his wedding to the daughter of Chief Cyprian Ekwensi, the late literary giant, in the early 90s".
The lawyer also debunked Emeka's claim that Bianca, Ojukwu's widow, apparently had a fore knowledge of the contents of the Will "when she sent some aides to remove her personal belongings from the Nnewi house that was eventually Willed to him ahead of the disclosure last Friday, November 30, 2012."
He alleged that ahead of the November 25, 2012 family thanksgiving at Nnewi, Bianca sent some of her aides to clean the house but were seized and beaten up mercilessly and detained, further alleging that it took the intervention of the extended Ojukwu family and other illustrious sons of Anambra who sued for peace.
"So, immediately after the event, she decided to move her belongings to another of the many other buildings within the premises, to avert further crisis and show of shame," he said. He said that Mark Ezemba, one of the witnesses to the Will, was Ojukwu's Bestman during his wedding with Bianca, while Justice Iguh was chairman at the wedding reception of Ojukwu Jnr. Onyemelukwe insisted that no other person knew or saw any of the contents of the Will before it was read last week, adding that in the course of drawing up the Will he reminded Ikemba on about two occasions to remember his son, Emeka.
That Ikemba said he had already handed over to him a money spinning multi-storey building with shops and offices known as 26, Sokoto Rd, adjacent to Onitsha Main Market to him, just as he had bequeathed 7 Forrest Crescent, Ekulu GRA, Enugu and the other property at Jabi, Abuja as gifts to Bianca.
That the late Ikemba said since he gave all his older children the best of foreign education possible, he made it possible to give the younger ones from Bianca similar opportunity. Counterring the claim that Emeka was not informed about the date for the reading of the Will, Onyemelukwe tendered three text messages hesent to Emeka's three active telephone lines which read: "The Will is to be read at the High Court, Enugu, at 8.30am, note the change of time, which was due to other engagements of the Chief Registrar…", "Please, remember the reading of your late father's Will on Friday, Nov 30, 2012 at 10am, at the Probate Registry, High Court, Enugu. Kindly inform your brother Okigbo and Mimi", "Emeka, please, be informed that your father's Will will be read on Nov 30, 2012." Again he explained that because he (Ojukwu) did not allegedly know about the existence of Debe until one day on his return from exile, one man came to his house to tell him he is his son.
Shocked as he would have been, he inquired of his mother, by the man Chukwudebe (aka) Debe, said she was dead. That she hailed from Udi, but married and died in Ezeagu, Enugu state. He therefore asked him to go and bring his alleged mother's family members or relations.
He left and never came back till date. That was why Ojukwu listed his children without his mention Onyemelukwe said Tenni Hamman who studied abroad and is still there, was born of a mother "from North-Eastern Nigeria", while Njideka gave him Emeka, Okigbo and Mimi. Angela Onyeador gave him Ebele, another daughter. Bianca gave him Chineme, Afam and Nwachukwu.
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Date: Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:41 PM
Subject: TUNDE..... KNEW TENNY - Dad told me about his daughter Tenny Harman ~ Debe Odumegwu Ojukwu
To:
alukome@gmail.com
On Saturday, December 1, 2012 , Tunde... wrote: I went to primary school at the Kaduna Capital School with the Tenny Haman referenced here. Her brothers Bukar etc. were friends of mine. Haman (the man) used to be a very senior police officer (IG or such). I remember Mrs. Haman (the mother) as this beautiful (tall & slim) fulani woman who had attended Queen of Apostles College (later renamed Queen Amina College). Her name was Marie Theresa and she was my mother's friend.
Even to my child's eye, the Haman girl looked exactly like Ojukwu. It was an open secret then that she was his daughter. I am talking about the late 60's and early 70's in Kaduna. It is a very interesting family history because the Tenny was junior to Bukar and the other Haman brothers I knew (there were like 4 or 5 of them). This means the tryst must have happened WHILE she was married to Haman. Interesting.
I must remember to add this to my book as I have other 100% true sweet jist that I am leaving out of this involving other Nigerian notables that I went to school with.
tunde
From: Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Naijaintellects] Dad told me about his daughter Tenny Harman ~ Debe Odumegwu Ojukwu
To: naijaintellects@googlegroups.com
Cc: "nidoa nidoa" <NigerianID@yahoogroups.com>, "NaijaPolitics e-Group" <NaijaPolitics@yahoogroups.com>, "OmoOdua" <OmoOdua@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tuesday, December 4, 2012, 12:05 AM
Dear All:
Interesting stuff! The General is being interesting pre-humously (if there is a word like that) and post-humously!
I had speculated elsewhere thusly:
QUOTE
In a spectacular display of reportorial laziness, not a SINGLE newspaper referring to this daughter "Tenny Haman" gives a SINGLE picture of her or ANY speculation of who she could be. Obviously, she seems OLDER than Emeka Jr. (because she is listed BEFORE him), and she is in Nigeria (because she is being given Jubilee Hotel right there in Kaduna - so most likely a daughter born (of a White mother?) while Ojukwu was a student at a Oxford or a soldier in the North.)
UNQUOTE
The lady might even be older than Debe Sylvester himself.
We shall see...
Bolaji Aluko Waiting like a vulture To see the picture of Tenny
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Pwaveno Bamaiyi <phbamaiyi@gmail.com> wrote: You now see that the late warlord had an affair with a northerner and fathered a child by her! These are some of the reasons we keep telling those who want Nigeria divided that it is not possible because we have so integrated into each other that is too late for Biafra or Oudua or Arewa or Middle belt or Niger-Delta republic or any of such hallucinations! Nigeria will always remain one. But am disappointed that Ojukwu did not talk about his love daughter while alive and worse Bianca seems to claim ignorance of this. Such behaviours are not worthy of emulation. But he is a human like us all and did make mistakes unlike some fanatical biafrans who consider him a saint! Lord have mercy! On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Emmanuel U. Obi <bizon586@yahoo.com> wrote: | Father told me about love child - Ojukwu's son by Ozioma Ubabukoh
Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu | ![]()
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| ![]() | First son of late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Mr. Debe Odumegwu-Ojukwu, on Sunday told that Teny Harman was his late father's a biological daughter. Debe, who spoke to our correspondent in Enugu, said there was no reason to question the paternity of Herman, as he (Debe) had always known about her. He said, "That is his daughter, I knew about her; my father told me himself. The old man told me that Teny Herman was his daughter. I am his biggest and closest confidant; so there were so many things he laid bare to me which he never told others." Debe, also known as Sylvester, revealed that Teny Herman's mother was a Northerner. "Her mother is from the North - Kaduna State precisely but I am not so sure of her first name now," he said. According to him, the ex-Biafra warlord's love for Teny embodied the love he had for Northerners while alive. He said, "My father loved Teny just the same way he loved the northerners. Infact, Teny's conception and birth was a hidden agenda he executed to demonstrate his love for the Northerners." However, he stated that the "authentic Will" written by his father was yet to be read, saying, "the Will purportedly read last week Friday at the Enugu State High Court is a script prepared by some people to suit their selfish desire." Debe added, "That is not his Will, you can see it from the reactions that have trailed it since it was read, so I'm not bothered. When the time comes, my late father's Will would be read. "Whenever it is time to read my father's Will, Nigerians would be duly informed and no one would be taken unawares as was the case in Enugu." | --
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