The early 1990s saw the contentious relationship become a national topic of conversation. Back then, a specific newspaper published a fake story claiming she was expecting. The pair did not acknowledge or deny the affair but Silverbird Productions, the company that organized the pageant, was incensed since MBGN title holders aren’t allowed to have romantic relationships in public while they’re in power.
All this caused her to abdicate her throne, even if at the time she refuted or denied having an affair with Ojukwu. Regina Askia, the first runner-up, took over and ended Bianca’s reign as Nigeria’s Most Beautiful Girl.
The romantic relationship was complicated by the fact that Bianca’s father, Christian Chukuwuma Onoh, popularly referred to as “CC Onoh,” was Dim Ojukwu’s political supporter.
Former Anambra State Governor CC Onoh was adamantly against his daughter’s relationship with the Ikemba Nnewi. But the teenage beauty queen’s first goal at the moment was finishing her legal studies at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
On November 12, 1994, at a grand wedding hosted in Abuja, she finally earned her law degree and wed the warlord. It’s also critical to remember that Ojukwu was single at the time hence they most likely were able to pass through a stringent Roman Catholic system wedding.
They decided to have a Christian wedding ceremony instead of the customary one because her parents disapproved of the coupling. Years later, after he accepted the truth of their love for one another, the pair finally won her father’s support.CC Onoh demanded an extremely unachievable bridal price of 100 pre-independence copper coins when he agreed to the payment of his daughter’s bride price.
When the conventional marriage ceremony took place in 2001, the couple had already welcomed three children into their union. After a brief illness, Ikemba Odumegwu Ojukwu passed away in the United Kingdom, ending their seventeen-year marriage. As of November 26, 2011, he was 78 years old.
