Abike Dabiri-Erewa, chairman of the Nigerians In Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), stated on Twitter that she is not a public figure that cows to bullying’.
She made this known in response to former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, who cautioned her for calling a Twitter troll ”Ode”.
Dabiri had earlier replied to a Twitter troll who referred to her as ”Mumu woman”, in her response, she used the word Ode to refer to the troll.
Reacting to Dabiri’s tweet, Ezekwesili, wrote; ”Dear Abike @abikedabiri, What is this? . Kai. This is messy. Please clean it up. Quickly. Please.”
In her response to Ezekwesili, 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.”