Discard Chimamanda Adichie’s “Fiction”, Onanuga Tells Biden

A media director of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, Bayo Onanuga has described Chimamanda Adichie’s letter to  US President Joe Biden as a “fiction” that should be discarded..

Addressing allegations of manipulation in the 2023 presidential election, Adichie, the celebrated Nigerian novelist, wrote a long read to Biden on Thursday.

In the letter, the author of ‘Americanah’ said the presidential election was marred with discrepancies and irregularities which she claims were shunned by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Reacting, Onanuga said Adichie’s letter is “inspired by the loss of her tribesman”, noting that the allegations in the letter are a figment of her imagination.

“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 wrote on Twitter.

The former managing director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) described Adichie’s letter as “tales by the moonlight”.