American President Joseph Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak have come under fire from Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie for congratulating President-elect Bola Tinubu.
Adichie expressed her grouse in an open letter to Biden published on The Atlantic on Thursday under the headline “Nigeria’s Hollow Democracy,” in which she claimed that the US president prioritized stability over democracy in Africa.
She said, “How surprising then to see the U.S. State Department congratulate Tinubu on March 1. ‘We understand that many Nigerians and some of the parties have expressed frustration about the manner in which the process was conducted and the shortcomings of technical elements that were used for the first time in a presidential election cycle,’ the spokesperson said.
