The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Dr. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has told a former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, that she will not withdraw calling a tweep: “Ode,” which means fool.
The Eagle Online recalls that Dabiri-Erewa and a Twitter user: Aggressively Obedient – Avoid me, had a face-off.
The Twitter user had called the former ranking House of Representatives member: “Mum,” which means stupid, over her comment on the attack on Nigerian students in India.
Aggressively Obedient – Avoid me had tweeted: “She should go to Indonesia and see how Nigerians are treated.
“Mumu woman supporting a failed government.
“She’s equally part of the failure.
“Eye service!”
In reaction, Dabiri-Erewa said: “Ode!
“You go to Indonesia, carry drugs, do cultism and come begging to be rescued from death sentence.
“Thank God for @ndlea_nigeria now saving people like you from death row.”
Following the altercations, Ezekwesili told Dabiri-Erewa: “What is this? ??♀️.
“Kai.
“This is messy.
“Please clean it up.
“Quickly.
“Please.”
But Dabiri-Erewa told Ezekwesili she would not.
She tweeted in response: “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.”