I am not a public figure that cows to bullying – Abike Dabiri-Erewa replies Oby Ezekwesili
Chairman of the Nigerians In Diaspora Commission NIDCOM, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has said she is not a public figure that cows to bullying.
She stated this while replying to former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, who cautioned her for calling a Twitter troll ”Ode” an abusive word in Yoruba language which can mean ”dumb, foolish, stupid,” and so on.
Ms Dabiri-Erewa had knocked a Twitter troll who referred to her as ”Mumu woman” which means a foolish or stupid woman.
It all started when Abike took to her handle to react to the attack on some Nigerian students in India. The Twitter user felt her response was unsatisfactory and went under her tweet to insult her.
Ms. Dabiri-Erewa saw his comment and tackled him.
Ezekwesili spotted Abike’s Tweet and felt it was inappropriate. Tweeting at Ms. Dabiri-Erewa, she wrote:
”Dear Abike @abikedabiri, What is this? Kai. This is messy. Please clean it up. Quickly. Please.”
Responding, Ms. Dabiri-Erewa, wrote: ”I’m done on this. But out of respect for you, will ask, Clean what up? It’s okay for some untrained, uncouth guy to refer to me as “mumu”, and I can’t call him “ ode”. I’m not a public official that cows to bullying pls.”
