Mr Bayo Onanuga, prominent journalist and media director of president-elect, Bola Tinubu, has advised United States president, Joe Biden, on how to handle the open letter by Nigerian novelist, Chimamanda Adichie, over the outcome of the 2023 presidential election.
Media reports that Adichie had in an open letter to Biden on Thursday, expressed dissatisfaction over the process of the presidential election conducted on February 25, saying the process was not marred by technical faults but deliberately manipulated.
Reacting to the letter, Onanuga, who had recently received strong criticisms over alleged incitement against Igbos aftermath of the election, said Biden should immediately trash Adichie’s letter
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 said in tweet on his Twitter handle on Friday morning.
Recall that Adichie, in the letter to Biden, also said the election that produced Tinubu was full of discrepancies and irregularities which were all shunned by the Independent National Electoral commission (INEC
Since the end of military rule in 1999, Nigerians have had little confidence in elections. To vote in a presidential election was to brace yourself for the inevitable aftermath: fraud,” she said.
“Elections would be rigged because elections were always rigged; the question was how badly. Sometimes voting felt like an inconsequential gesture as predetermined “winners” were announced.
law passed last year, the 2022 Electoral Act, changed everything. It gave legal backing to the electronic accreditation of voters and the electronic transmission of results, in a process determined by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
“The chair of the commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, assured Nigerians that votes would be counted in the presence of voters and recorded in a result sheet, and that a photo of the signed sheet would immediately be uploaded to a secure server
