7th April, 2023
Critic, Reno Omokri has told US President Joe Biden to take whatever Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie told him about Nigeria’s election with a pinch of salt as she is a partisan Peter Obi’s supporters.
Adichie had written an open letter to Biden, questioning the rationale Americans kept congratulating the winner of Nigeria’s presidential election, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Adichie had described the election as disastrous even though she was not in the country to witness the poll.
According to her, “I supported Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s candidate, and hoped he would win, as polls predicted, but I was prepared to accept any result, because we had been assured that technology would guard the sanctity of votes.
“The smoldering disillusionment felt by many Nigerians is not so much because their candidate did not win as because the election they had dared to trust was, in the end, so unacceptably and unforgivably flawed.”
But Omokri countered Adichie, saying she is partisan and would not judge rightly in this matter as she is an Obi supporter.
He tweeted: “I hope @TheAtlantic know that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is not some unbiased concerned Nigerian? She endorsed Peter Obi, and called him “my President” before the election. She is partisan. @JoeBiden and the @StateDept would be wise take her OpEd with a pinch of salt!”