Bayo Onanuga, Director of Media and Publicity for the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign, has urged President Joe Biden not to take seriously Chimamanda Adicihe’s open letter in which she chastised the United States and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for congratulating President-elect Bola Tinubu.
Adichie had in her open letter to Biden on The Atlantic titled, ‘Nigeria’s Hollow Democracy’ on Thursday, said that the American president gave priority to stability than democracy in Africa.
She, amongst other claims, faulted the process that produced Tinubu as President-elect and called on the American president to stand up for justice and the rule of law.
But Onanuga in a tweet on Friday morning, described her letter as a 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.”
Newsclick Nigeria reports that the official result announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, saw Tinubu of the APC win with 8,794,726 votes, while Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi of the PDP and Labour Party came second and third with 6,984,520 and 6,101,533 respectively.