Former Police Commissioner corrects Philip Asiodu over alleged distortion of history

Former Police Commissioner Ikechukwu Ayo Aduba accused Chief Philip Asiodu of distorting history after Asiodu denied Asaba's Igbo heritage and the ethnic basis of the 1967 Asaba Massacre. Aduba maintained that Asaba is an Igbo community by language, culture, and origin, citing linguistic and cultural evidence. He stated that federal records, survivor testimony, and academic research contradict Asiodu's claim that the massacre was not ethnic. Former Head of State Yakubu Gowon publicly apologized in 2001, and death toll estimates range from 373 to 800, with over 1,000 cited by survivors.