Again, Ohakim hits Chris Anyanwu, vows to bublish her apology letter to Abacha

…Says She Can’t Be A Role Model

Former Imo state governor, Dr. Ikedi Ohakim, has responded to Senator Chris Anyanwu’s challenge that he should make public the apology letter he, Ohakim, claimed she wrote to the late head of state, General Sani Abacha over the 1995 coup which led to her arrest and imprisonment for four years.

Governor Ohakim had, while criticizing some aspects of Senator Anyanwu’s recently release memoir, BOLD LEAP, in a newspaper interview, alleged that Anyanwu cleverly avoided telling her readers that she wrote an apology letter to Abacha for the role she played in that coup.

Irked by that allegation, Senator Anaynwu challenged the former governor, via a statement in the media, to publish the said apology letter. But in a press statement issued over the weekend on his behalf by his media aide, Mazi Amanze Ajoku, Ohakim told Senator Anyanwu that he will live up to that challenge. “Dr. Ohakim has now resolved to publish, in his forth coming book, Madam Christiana Anyanwu’s letter of apology to Abacha to prove that she cannot be a role model to our young daughters”, the statement read in part.

In the statement, Ohakim wondered why Senator Anyanwu ignored the other critical issues he raised in his critique of her book to dwell only on the issue of the apology letter to Abacha. “She conveniently cherry-picked one of the four issues Dr. Ohakim raised – the apology letter to Abacha – while ignoring the other three: her lies and misinterpretation of facts regarding the 2011 Imo governorship election, allegedly securing the approval of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan GCFR in procuring the military to disrupt the 2011 election and deploying her radio station to spread the falsehood that Dr. Ohakim slapped a Rev. Father”, the statement noted.

It added that although Ohakim “is not unmindful of the fact that joining issues with Madam Anyanwu in the Nigerian media is like challenging a fish in a swimming competition…”, he would not be deterred from defending “his hard earned reputation and character”.