A spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga, has described Chimamanda Adichie's letter as fiction which he said was inspired by 'the monumental loss of her tribesman Peter Obi'. Onanuga, who has been critical of dissent voices against the election, urged President Joe Biden of the United States of America to trash the letter once it gets to his desk.
Nigerian novelist, Chimamanda Adichie on Thursday wrote an open letter to President Biden not to accept the presidential election results that produced Bola Tinubu, candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, as the ‘winner’.
The award-winning novelist in the open letter published in TheAtlantic described the election as badly flawed. She said Tinubu’s victory was illegitimate as the process of the February 25 presidential election was not marred by technical faults as claimed by the INEC but a deliberate manipulation by the electoral umpire, adding that the election was full of discrepancies and irregularities which were all shunned by the INEC.“American intelligence surely cannot be so inept.
Meanwhile, Valentine Ozigbo, the Special Adviser to Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi and the immediate past President and Chief Executive Officer of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria plc, praised Adichie for writing the letter, insisting that lawlessness has consequences.He wrote:"Lawlessness has consequences." - Nigeria's literary superstar, @ChimamandaReal speaks truth to @POTUS President Biden in open letter published in @TheAtlantic.
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