Chimamanda Adichie, a Nigerian novelist, has enraged supporters of President-elect Bola Tinubu with a letter she wrote to President of the United States, Joe Biden, expressing her dissatisfaction with the process of the presidential election held on February 25.
According to Adichie, the Nigeria presidential election process was deliberately manipulated rather than marred by technical flaws.
In response to Adichie’s letter, the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign Council’s Director of Media and Publicity, Bayo Onanuga, has urged President Biden not to take seriously Adichie’s open letter in which she chastised the United States and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for congratulating Tinubu.
Onanuga in a tweet on Friday morning, described her letter as fiction written over the loss of her tribesman, Peter Obi.
He tweeted, “Dear President Joe Biden, please just trash the open letter by Chimamanda on Nigeria’s election once it gets to your desk. She wrote fiction, inspired by the monumental loss of her tribesman Peter Obi.”
Okelo Madukaife, the Anambra State Publicity Secretary of All Progressives Congress (APC), wrote “I guess she is not current with the changing global balance of power and is entrapped in the old thoughts that in the unlikely event of America listening to her on the eve of another election, the President Bola Tinubu Government will have legitimacy issues.
“She just deceived herself, possibly addressing issues as she did in the land conflict between Abba, her hometown and their Ukpo big neighbours.
“There is so little any single person can do from the armchair, armed with only a pretty face and pretty prose without a grasp of the Nigerian Electoral Process, let alone its polity and attendant complications” he noted.