‘Colonial mentality’ — Keyamo chides Chimamanda Adichie over letter to Biden

‘Colonial mentality’ — Keyamo chides Chimamanda Adichie over letter to Biden

 Festus Keyamo, spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) presidential campaign council, says the letter written to US President
Joe Biden by Chimamanda Adichie is not worthy of attention.

 

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

 

In the letter, she alleged that the presidential election
was marred with discrepancies and irregularities which she claims were shunned
by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

 

Adichie asked Biden to uphold his stance on the need for a
true democracy, adding that congratulating Bola Tinubu who was “hastily”
announced as president-elect tarnishes America’s self-proclaimed commitment to
democratic processes.

 

Responding in a statement on Friday, Keyamo described the
letter as “worthless”, adding that it “reflects a pathetic colonial mentality”.

 

He said in global diplomacy and international relations,
presidents make decisions and take actions about other countries’ affairs
“based on reports from official and diplomatic sources likely to have been
conveyed through well-established channels of communications”.

 

“Long epistles written in flowery or purple prose by bitter
supporters of sore losers, posing as ‘concerned citizens’ (but in reality
actuated by ethnic politics) do not fall within these official or diplomatic
sources,” Keyamo said.

 

“It is befuddling that someone often celebrated for using a
God-given talent to promote our African values, will so tragically degrade that
same ethos by penning a letter that is so petty, so grovelling in its tone in
urging a single foreign power to withhold a mere congratulatory message to our
president-elect as if that is what actually validates our own democratic
identity.

 

“It reflects a pathetic colonial mentality. It is even more
ironic to realise that the same foreign power to which the obsequious appeal is
directed is still grappling with the credibility of its own internal democratic
process that produced its present leadership.

 

“More tragic is that some rabid supporters here are falling
over themselves in deluded ecstasy for such a worthless letter that may not
even be considered worthy enough, in a diplomatic sense, for the attention of
even a stenographer to an Under Secretary in the US.

 

“Such only paints the picture of a band of drowning supporters
clutching at any straw to stay afloat.

 

 “As for the empirical
fallacies contained in the letter, I will not bother myself here with a lengthy
response as enough has been said in the last few weeks in respect of those
specific issues and all the issues are before our justices awaiting adjudication.


 

“But I have bad news for them: the stenographer will
probably toss the letter into a trash bin with the conclusion that it is no
more than the tantrums of a Trump reincarnate in Nigeria – those who refuse to
accept obvious defeat! Yes, the US has the likes of that writer in their midst
too!”

Source: ‘Colonial mentality’ — Keyamo chides Chimamanda Adichie over letter to Biden

 - NigerianEye

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