Your letter smacks colonial mentality — Keyamo to Chimamanda

…..she wrote fiction – Onanuga

The Spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, Festus Keyamo SAN, says the letter written by Nigeria novelist, Chimamanda Adichie to the US President is not worthy of attention.

Chimamanda had in the letter on Thursday alleged that the 2023 presidential election was marred with irregularities which she claims were shunned by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

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The author said despite the promise of a free and credible election, the INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, “hastily” announced Bola Tinubu of the APC as the winner of the election without investigating reports of irregularities.

Adichie asked President Joe Biden to uphold his stance on the need for a true democracy, adding that congratulating Tinubu tarnishes America’s self-proclaimed commitment to democratic processes.

Responding in a statement on Friday, Keyamo described the letter as “worthless”, adding that it “reflects a pathetic colonial mentality”

Also reacting to the letter by Chimamanda, Media director of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, Bayo Onanuga said Chimamanda’s letter is “inspired by the loss of her tribesman”, noting that the allegations in the letter are a figment of her imagination.

Onanuga asked the US President to trash the letter, noting that Chimamanda wrote fiction.

“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,” Onanuga wrote on Twitter.