According to political analyst Jide Ojo, the world-famous Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie’s letter to US President Joe Biden over the handling of the 2023 presidential election affected the Igbos’ prospects of winning the senate presidency.
News reports that Adichie penned an open letter to Biden a few weeks ago regarding the irregularities in the Nigerian presidential election of 2023.
In the letter titled “Nigeria’s Hollow Democracy,” Adichie condemned the United States for congratulating the President-elect, Bola Tinubu.
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She expressed regret that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which had promised to conduct a perfect election, had betrayed the trust of Nigerians.
Dele Alake, the special communications adviser to Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, responded to the writer’s assertions by claiming that Adichie’s letter was biased and defective.
He argued that Adichie based her arguments on “rumors, hearsay, presumptuous conjectures, and outright falsehood,” adding that she offered no supporting data.
He had said, “Chimamanda had pinned her hopes on a possible Obi victory partly on predictions of flawed opinion polls some of which were predicated on statistically negligible and thus unreliable sample sizes and others on no discernible empirical basis whatsoever. Opinion polls do not win elections.”
The National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress recently said that they would zone the presidency to the South-South and that Godswill Akpabio, a former governor of Akwa Ibom State, was their top choice.
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Senators from the Southeast strongly opposed this action, claiming that their region was being disregarded.
However, Jide Ojo enumerated a few of the past actions taken by Igbos that might be damaging their prospects of obtaining a significant post in the administration of the President-elect in an exclusive interview with Newsmen.
He emphasized that one of these acts was Adichie’s letter, which sharply criticized Tinubu’s electoral triumph.
Ojo contended that such actions by well-known Igbo figures may have given the false impression to the President-elect that the Igbos do not intend to cooperate with him to advance the nation.
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