Top Nigerian lawyer and professor Yemi Oke wrote an open letter to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and US President Joe Biden regarding the Nigerian elections.
In the letter, dated Sunday April 9th, Oke criticized popular Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie’s stance on the February 25th presidential polls.
Oke referred to Adichie’s letter to Biden as “seditious” and accused her of engaging in extraterritorial ethnocentric politicking as a non-resident Nigerian-American.
Oke went on to state that Adichie’s letter was unbecoming and that she had written a seditious letter against the government and people of Nigeria, falling short of expectations.
Oke expressed his surprise that a privileged Nigerian-born writer like Adichie would choose to portray her country of origin in such a negative light.
“Chimamanda’s letter was against entire Nigeria’s Democracy that was fought and procured with patriotic bloods and undeterred resolve of democrats, chief among them being Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” he said.
Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie wrote an open letter to US President Joe Biden accusing Nigeria’s electoral commission of ignoring “glaring red flags” and manipulating the presidential election.
Adichie supported the Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi, and claimed that if the results had been uploaded in real-time, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Tinubu, would not have won.
The APC candidate was declared the winner, with 8,794,726 votes, beating his closest challenger, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, who scored 6,984,520 votes. Peter Obi came third with 6,101,533 votes.
In response, Nigerian lawyer and professor Yemi Oke wrote an open letter to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Biden, criticising Adichie’s letter as “seditious.”
Oke accused Adichie of engaging in “extraterritorial ethnocentric politicking” as a non-resident Nigerian-American.
Bay States News 