Confusion has continued to trail the statement credited to the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, that the Benin people founded Lagos.
The latest to add to the controversy is an ex-Niger Delta agitator, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, who said on Thursday that the King shared a “parasitic history.”
Dukobo said that the Benin People did not find Lagos, but the Benin Army attacked Lagos Island, not the entire state, which included the spread to the hinterland of modern Lagos.
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The argument over the ownership of Lagos resurfaced following the monarch’s visit to the governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, in Marina.
The PUNCH reports that an argument over the ownership of Lagos resurfaced after the revered Benin monarch visited Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu in Marina on Sunday.
Addressing the public, the Oba of Benin said, “It is in the history books that the Benins founded Lagos.”
This has caused reactions across the country, particularly from Lagosians, home and abroad, historians, and other Nigerians who faulted the King’s historical narration.
Asari-Dokubo reacted, “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!”
The ex-militant said those who claimed Benin people founded Lagos do not realize the distance between Benin and Lagos and 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?”
Asari-Dokubo said that just because the Benin Army attacked Lagos did not mean it founded the state.
“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.
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