Ebele Obiano A Disgrace For Attacking ‘Pride Of Ndigbo’, Senator Oduah Condemns Attack On Bianca

Stella Oduah, the Senator representing Anambra North, has slammed the immediate past First Lady of Anambra State, Ebele Obiano, for creating a scene at the inauguration ceremony of Governor Charles Soludo.

Ebele, whose husband Willie Obiano handed over power to Soludo on Thursday, had disrupted the swearing-in ceremony when she suddenly stood up from her seat to harass Bianca Ojukwu, widow of the late Biafran leader Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu and former Ambassador to Spain.

Videos of the incident in circulation on social media showed the moment Bianca reacted by slapping the ex-first lady to the amazement of important personalities attending the event.

Reacting to the incident, Oduah said Ebele’s conduct was not only “disgraceful” but sends a negative message to millions of young girls and women who expected much from someone of her calibre.

The senator’s words: “My attention has been drawn to the shameful conduct of the wife of the ex-governor and former first lady of Anambra State, Mrs. Ebelechukwu Obiano, who threw decorum away and attacked Her Excellency, Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu at today’s inauguration ceremony and I hereby condemn in strong terms, this unwarranted attack against the wife of an illustrious son and our very own Ikemba.

“I wish to add that the act exhibited by the former first lady was indecorous and unbecoming of a woman who had acted as a mother of the state and even desirous of serving in other capacities.

“More condemnable is even the gutter and vulgar language used by Mrs Obiano to describe her fellow woman, who is even a widow. I have always held the view that it is only weak minds that label hardworking women like Bianca with nasty names such as “ashawo” and it is more unfortunate when a woman, especially one that has been around the corridors of power, is the one hurling such baseless and regretful invectives against her fellow woman.

“What the world witnessed today at the swearing in ceremony is utterly disgraceful, unfortunate, crude and should never be emulated by the millions of our young girls and women who often look up to public figures with respect to how they conduct themselves.

“Only a few days ago, an innocent woman was publicly paraded naked in the same community our former first lady hails from and one would have thought that rather than showcase this brute nature of fighting and engaging in public fisticuffs with her guest, she should have exerted same energy and fighting spirit in ensuring that justice is done for that widow.

“It saddens me a great deal to see the wife of an illustrious Anambra son, the pride of Ndigbo and an achiever that was once an ambassador of the Federal Republic, being attacked unprovoked and I join all right-thinking persons in praying that we never ever record this type of travesty again in our history as a state.”