A letter of celebrated writer Chimamanda Adichie to US President Joe Biden, has cause confusion in the camp of APC.
Chief Adichie had in an 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 said Biden must not congratulate Nigeria’s President-elect because the process leading to his victory was tainted by very deliberate electoral manipulation and called on the American president to stand up for justice and the rule of law.
APC chieftain who doesn’t want his named to be mentioned, told NN News that Lai Mohammed visit to US is now worthless following Chimamanda Adichie letter to US president.
However, the Director Media and Publicity Tinubu/Shettima Campaign, Bayo Onanuga and Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has urged Biden to ignore Adichie.
According to Onanuga urged President Joe Biden not to take seriously the open letter written by Chimamanda Adicihe where she berated the United States and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for congratulating President-elect Bola Tinubu.
Onanuga in a tweet on Friday morning, describe Adichie letter as a fiction written over the loss of her tribesman, Peter Obi.
Also, Festus Keyamo, has reacted to the letter in a statement on Friday, describing the letter as “worthless”, adding that it “reflects a pathetic colonial mentality”.
According to him, Adichie, celebrated for promoting African values, is now the same person degrading the country by writing a petty letter to the US president. He said in global diplomacy and international relations, presidents make decisions and take actions about other countries’ affairs “based on reports from official and diplomatic sources likely to have been conveyed through well-established channels of communications”.
“Long epistles written in flowery or purple prose by bitter supporters of sore losers, posing as ‘concerned citizens’ (but in reality actuated by ethnic politics) do not fall within these official or diplomatic sources,” Keyamo said.
“It is befuddling that someone often celebrated for using a God-given talent to promote our African values, will so tragically degrade that same ethos by penning a letter that is so petty, so grovelling in its tone in urging a single foreign power to withhold a mere congratulatory message to our president-elect as if that is what actually validates our own democratic identity.
“It reflects a pathetic colonial mentality. It is even more ironic to realise that the same foreign power to which the obsequious appeal is directed is still grappling with the credibility of its own internal democratic process that produced its present leadership.
“More tragic is that some rabid supporters here are falling over themselves in deluded ecstasy for such a worthless letter that may not even be considered worthy enough, in a diplomatic sense, for the attention of even a stenographer to an Under Secretary in the US.
“Such only paints the picture of a band of drowning supporters clutching at any straw to stay afloat.
“As for the empirical fallacies contained in the letter, I will not bother myself here with a lengthy response as enough has been said in the last few weeks in respect of those specific issues and all the issues are before our justices awaiting adjudication.
“But I have bad news for them: the stenographer will probably toss the letter into a trash bin with the conclusion that it is no more than the tantrums of a Trump reincarnate in Nigeria – those who refuse to accept obvious defeat! Yes, the US has the likes of that writer in their midst too!”
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