US-based Professor Goodhead Dokubo has berated his elder brother, Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo, over his hate speech against Igbo in a viral video, days after he visited President Bola Tinubu in Abuja.
Prof. Dokubo, who was visibly pissed with his brother’s unguarded utterance against the Igbo, advised the peoples of the South East to drag all Igbo haters to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague, Netherlands.
Titled “Season of Hate” Prof. Dokubo, who seemed to have replied to some comments made in a group WhatsApp platform, said he restrained himself from commenting on his brother’s post so that it would not be termed sibling rivalry.
He wrote: “My preference is to keep quiet on matters that involve my elder brother because immediately I say what I think on his utterances, all sorts of motor-park and roadside psychologists would reach for the stupid claim that I am engaged in sibling rivalry.”
Prof. Dokubo continued: “His utterances in this video are absolutely deplorable. I felt like throwing up after watching it. Something gave inside me. I wept. What a country! What a shameless country!
“I was also made nauseous by your statement that you wonder why after making these statements, he was allowed to take photos with the INEC-selected and imposed president, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Are they not birds of the same feather?
“Why are you trying to elevate the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to what he is not. Is it not the man’s wife that threatened the Igbo in Lagos, saying that they dare not vote for anyone but her husband?
“Is it not the same woman who said that the Igbo living in Lagos should forcefully, not organically, assimilate into Yoruba by marrying Yoruba, so that their children would be Yoruba?
“Intertribal marriage should be encouraged to foster unity. Two of my cousins are half Yoruba. This occurred organically. It was not imposed.
“The wife of the INEC-selected and imposed president has different ideas–for her, the precondition for the Igbo to live like everyone else in Lagos is not as Igbo but as Yoruba. Has she made that demand of any other group in Nigeria or the Chinese or the Lebanese or the Israelis or any of the various nationalities of Great Britain that have owned and operated businesses in Lagos for over a century and a half? Did her husband take her to task?
“Where was her husband when his thugs were blooding up Igbo business owners and destroying their businesses before and during the election?
“In case you don’t know, the APC under the man, who is currently parading himself as the president of Nigeria, has played the ethnic card of “the Igbo are taking over Lagos” whenever the Igbo in Lagos appear to favor any governorship candidate going against the AD and its reincarnation the APC.
“Is it not his chief campaign spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, that went on a tirade filled with hate and genocidal threats against the Igbo? That is the way the man operates–a cold-blooded, heartless politician, who opportunistically marshalls ethnic hatred again and again to achieve his political goals.
“As we speak, the governor of Lagos State is bulldozing Igbo business structures at Alaba Market under the spurious claim that the structures are distressed structures. If they are distressed structures, why not tell the owners to firm them up by building supporting pillars and other structural support into them to make them safe? How many of the structures are above two floors?
“This is an open war of hatred against an ethnic group. No other group is being subjected to such war of hatred and intolerance in Lagos. Yet Igbo leaders have refused to take the courageous road that Ken Saro-Wiwa took by bringing these wars of hatred against the Igbo before the international community again and again and again until the international community takes notice and hauls the perpetrators before its various courts for crimes against humanity. They prefer to make bland appeals to very degenerate, opportunistic politicians, whose track record shows that they will continue to peddle in ethnic hatred against the Igbo until perhaps there is some kind of revolution in Nigeria or the problem is internationalized.
“It is really mind numbing and, indeed, an utter disgrace that Igbo leaders have not stood up to the man and his many disciples, like the man demolishing Igbo businesses at Alaba Market, over all these years. Now, you have come to paint him with sainted brush strokes. When intelligent Igbo middle-class folk like you accept such outrages against the Igbo and call ignominious men all kinds of highfalutin names, I shake my head and weep for the Igbo.”