This comes following Adichie’s open letter published by the American publication, The Atlantic, on Thursday, April 6, 2023, in which she accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of betraying the trust of Nigerians by reneging on its pre-election promise to upload results in real-time.
She also called attention to the recorded incidents of violence, intimidation of voters, ethnic profiling, mutilation and manipulation of results sheets that characterised the just concluded general elections.
“The election had been not only rigged but done in such a shoddy, shabby manner that it insulted the intelligence of Nigerians,” she wrote in the letter titled “Nigeria’s Hollow Democracy”.
