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‘It’s embarrassing for APC to say I supported Obi because he’s Igbo’ – Chimamanda Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author, has faulted Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka for describing Labour Party’s vice-presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed’s comment on the general elections as fascist.
Adichie who spoke on Arise TV Prime Time on Tuesday, also accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of compromising the 2023 election, noting that Nigerians believed so much in the election, “but INEC dashed away our hopes.”
She also said it so embarrassing to see the All Progressives Congress (APC) accuse me of supporting Peter Obi simply because he is from the same tribe as me, noting that the party is practicing what in psychology is called “Projecting”, doing something and accusing another person of doing it.
According to her, “My support for Mr. Peter Obi is based on his track record, personal experience, and the real things he has demonstrated over time.”
Speaking about Soyinka, Adichie said she tremendous respect for the Nobel laureate, but strongly disagrees with his take on Baba-Ahmed’s comment.
“I have a lot of respect for Prof. Soyinka, I admire him, I respect him as a thinker, as a writer, I think every one should read the The Man Died, Ake: The Memoir is beautiful, but at the same time, I disagree with him very strongly on this particular issue, and actually because I respect Prof. Soyinka so much, I went back and watch the interview, and I think fascist is a really strong word.
“We use it now to address this sort of authoritarianism that is often populist, and right-wing like Hungary, and even the former American president, and if you look at those situations, you can see why they have been termed fascist, and I didn’t see any reason Mr. Datti Baba-Ahmed’s interview would have been termed fascist.
“I think he was making a very strongly felt point about the election. I think a charitable way of reading Prof. Soyinka’s comments is that Professor Soyinka himself, I think it’s fair to say he is not given to restraint in language, in general, so maybe that’s where that word fascist came from.”
Recall that Soyinka slammed the LP’s VP call to President Muhammadu Buhari and the Chief Justice not to swear-in Bola Tinubu, the president-elect.
Baba-Ahmed had insisted that declaring Tinubu a winner and issuing him a certificate of return was against the constitution.
Soyinka, in his reaction, described such statement as unacceptable because it alienates the people, and it is a ‘fascistic language.’
Watch her interview via the link below
mickykarim
April 12, 2023 at 1:29 pm
The LIAR tribal bigot!
THE QUESTION REMAINS IF THE TODDLER HOLLOW BRAIN WOULD HAVE DESCRIBED THE NIGERIAN DEMOCRACY HOLLOW IF HER CO BIGOT CANDIDATE Peter Obi HAD WON AND OR DECLARED WINNER IN THE ELECTION.
She is a proven tribal bigot who does not know the meaning of DEMOCRACY.
Chimamanda Adichie OWES US AN EXPLANATION OF THE TRIBAL CONNOTATIONS OF THE PATTERN OF VOTES FOR Peter Obi IN THE EAST.
The overblown over glorified LITTLE girl was being CHILDISH with the HOGWASH she penned to the fellow in the Oval office who happens to an outcome of a QUESTIONAL victory in the US presidential elections. The election that remained unsettled with daily innuendoes within the society of Americans with the type of DIVISION unheard of in the US.
Chimamanda Adichie scribbled letters and wordings of NONSESICAL dimensions to another FAG with an apparel of illegitimacy. What a shame!
SHE NEEDS TO GO TO A SCHOOL WHERE THEY TEACH THE BASICS AND TENETS OF DEMOCRCY.