Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), a human rights lawyer, has called on the police to arrest Ebelechukwu, the wife of ex-Governor Willie Obiano, and Bianca Ojukwu, the widow of Biafra leader Chukwuemeka Ojukwu.

Falana said this in a statement on Friday in response to a brawl between the two women at Anambra State Governor Prof. Charles Soludo’s inauguration on Thursday.

”If they hadn’t been dignitaries, the senior advocate argued, the police would have arrested them right away.”

He added, “No doubt, Governor Soludo has apologised for the embarrassment to which the guests were subjected. But that is not the end of the case as the offence of affray was committed. The offence of affray occurs when two or more people engage in a fight in public. It is punishable under Section 83 of the Criminal Code.

“The fact that the two VIPs were not arrested has once again confirmed that Nigeria operates two sets of laws, one for the rich and one for the poor. If two workers had committed affray in that ceremony, they would have been arrested, detained, and charged for disrupting the new governor’s inauguration.”