How The Fight Between Bianca And Ebelechukwu Happened—APGA Chieftain

<h4>How The Fight Between Bianca And Ebelechukwu Happened&&num;8212&semi;APGA Chieftain<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a> <&sol;strong>reports that former national chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance &lpar;APGA&rpar;&comma; Senator Victor Umeh has explained how he stepped in to prevent what could have become full-blown fisticuffs between former Nigerian Ambassador to Spain&comma; Mrs&period; Bianca Ojukwu and the immediate past first lady of Anambra State&comma; Mrs&period; Ebelechukwu Obiano during the inauguration of Prof&period; Chukwuma Soludo as the new governor of the state&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The two women had engaged in a free-for-all at the inauguration of Prof Chukwuma Soludo as Anambra Governor on Thursday leading to the wife of the late Ikemba Nnewi slapping Obiano’s wife&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;But fielding questions from newsmen during the 80th birthday celebration of foremost Nigerian philosopher and president general of Alaigbo Development Foundation&comma; Professor Uzodimma Nwala in Enugu on Saturday&comma; Senator Umeh&comma; said he knew that such a situation would arise and stepped in to prevent escalation of the incident&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to him&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But I was on ground&period; I stepped in quickly to arrest the situation&period; Thank God that normalcy returned immediately through my intervention”&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He described the altercation as clear mismanagement of emotion and temperament&comma; a development he said was uncalled for&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The altercation was clearly provoked by one party because everybody saw the video footage&period; Somebody &lpar;Mrs&period; Obiano&rpar; left her seat and moved towards someone&lpar;Bianca&rpar; who was sitting calmly and following the proceedings and began to pour invectives on her&period; She proceeded to push her&comma; trying to remove her headscarf&period; What could you have done in such a situation&quest; The provocation was much&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But then&comma; we knew that such a situation might arise because there has been a lot of bottled anger on this issue&period; So&comma; that is by the way&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;So&comma; the incident didn’t disturb the inauguration&period; The event took place and at most&comma; we regard the incident as a sideshow”&comma; the former APGA national chairman said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;