DAILY TRUST
Founder of the defunct Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo, has lambasted those saying that Bini people founded Lagos.
The argument over ownership of Lagos was reignited after the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, visited Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos, on Sunday.
In his address, the traditional ruler said, ‘’It is in the history books that the Binis founded Lagos.”
The Oba’s statement has sparked reactions among Lagosians and Nigerians at large, which have forced some people to register their voices on the matter.
The Balogun of Eko, Abisoye Oshodi, was the first Lagos indigene to publicly fault the claim by the Oba of Benin.
In his reaction via a viral video on Thursday, Dokubo said what the monarch had succeeded in doing was sharing parasitic history.
He said the Bini people never founded Lagos, but added the history recorded that Benin Army attacked Lagos Island at a time.
The former Niger Delta militant said the army just attacked the Island, not the entire Lagos which include spread to the hinterland of the modern Lagos.
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