The only interview granted by Chief Dokpesi that I ever watched was the one aired after he passed on.
Weeks later, the wife came to the office and announced to everyone that her car had a problem on the road just outside the premises. I stood up, took another person with me and walked down the stairs to assist her with the car. I suppose that summarizes my view of life: Let people be who they are; be what you are. At the time Chief Dokpesi was talking in the interview, he said many people offended him and did him harm in his lifetime, but he overlooked and moved on.
Now back to the phone call the Sultan made to the Dokpesi family. As he spoke with Mrs Dokpesi, the Sultan recalled the time he was in the army and he was in Lagos. He explained how Chief Dokpesi related well with him and his fellow officers, and how he had assisted them. I reckon Mrs Dokpesi was probably not aware of what the Sultan said about Chief Dokpesi at the time it actually happened.
Projections other than this reality are what I have always campaigned against on this page. Each person who projected division got a response here irrespective of the tribe they came from. When the Sultan spoke about a southerner as he did to the Dokpesi family and other prominent Nigerians said how people from other tribes and religions had been good to them, could some of us stop saying what we said? My journeys across this nation make what the Sultan says resonate with me.
How should some of us treat the impression of division that some create when the reality is quite different? How, when a well-known politician of northerner extraction would call and say, “Tunji, it’s been a long time we spoke,” even though it was a few months interval. How should we react when an Igbo friend would call and say, “Tunji, I hope you are doing fine.” Those who don’t want to have anything to do with people of other tribes are entitled to their position.
The Sultan of Sokoto’s words to the Dokpesi family about how Chief Dokpesi related with him and other Nigerians is, for me, a good illustration to cite in support of the view I always express on this page. In fact, I say in private conversations that if Nigerians across tribes and religions have been to me what they have been to me but I don’t state it on this page, I should be guilty of an offence against our nation.
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