Asari Dokubo faults Oba of Benin on claim the Benins founded Lagos

Ex-Niger Delta militant, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, has waded into the controversy on who founded Lagos.

 

Dokubo, in a video posted on X, said the claim by the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, that the Benins founded Lagos, was a distorted history.

 

According to Asari Dokubo, the distance between Benin and Lagos, makes the argument of the Oba faulty.

 

The Oba of Benin had during a visit to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu in Lagos said that the Benins founded Lagos.

 

Asari-Dokubo, on his part, said, “The Oba of Benin carried a parasitic history to Lagos. Most of these things did not even happen. People even said there was one said by Oba of Lagos, and they started chewing a narrative. The question I’m asking the Oba of Benin and the people is, did Benin now package the land of Lagos among the Yoruba people and Egun people? It doesn’t make sense!”

 

He insisted that those who hold the belief that Lagos was founded by Benin people do not know history.

 

He added, “Dahomey attacked Lagos. Dahomey attacked Abeokuta. Dahomey people in the Benin Republic will now say they own Lagos.

 

“You don’t know history. A Benin Army attacked Ondo. Ijaw people ferried them. They went to attack Lagos Island. Not the whole of Lagos, just the Island.

 

“Lagos was made of five divisions. Four of these divisions were of the former western region. You don’t know history. Which Lagos belongs to Benin people?”

 

The ex-Niger Delta militant said while it sounds reasonable that the Benin Army attacked the people of Lagos, it is wrong to say that Lagos was founded by Benin people.

 

“And it is Lagos Island, that very tiny place that they are talking about. They are not talking of Ikeja, they are not talking of Ikorodu, they are not talking of Badagry, they are not talking of Mushin,” he added.