Social media activist, Reno Omokri has advised US President Joe Biden to disregard Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s remark about the 2023 general elections urging him to take her Op-Ed with a pinch of salt.
Recall, the renowned author had, in an open letter to Biden, questioned Americans’ justification for felicitating the winner of Nigeria’s presidential election, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The Enugu-Born writer who had professed her support for the candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi alleged that the election was deliberately manipulated.
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.”
Countering her claim, Omokri said Adichie has her biases and would not judge rightly in this matter as she is a known 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 wisto to e take her OpEd with a pinch of salt!”
