Between Tinubu’s Victory, Fiction and the West (part 2- concluded)
By: Taiwo Akerele
One fact that is unassailable is that a great number of commentaries around the outcome of Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election are hinged on crass ignorance.
This is particularly emblematised in the recent letter written by Chimamanda Adichie to President Joe Biden.
The U.S. government and the European Union have tons of reports from different sources about the Nigerian elections. They had observers from their embassies and consulates in Lagos and Abuja.
The USAID and EU deployed a good number of local and international observers while the NDI and NRI deployed scholars and observers as well to write on the situation in Nigeria.
The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and the Atlantic Center in Washington committed quite a lot of resources to the same monitoring process.
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Moreover, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) would usually and timely submit their preliminary reports to the President a couple of days after the Nigerian elections, and sequel to that, presumably, the White House spokesman addressed the press in the Oval Office and congratulated Mr. Tinubu after a careful appraisal of the issues and the process that led to his emergence. Emphasis is on the constitutional process which led to the outcome.
I advise the Nigerian opposition and sympathisers like Chimamanda Adichie, who has overrated her relevance due to her famed fictional storytelling, to stop all the odious, farcical letter writing and vexatious memos to world leaders who are better briefed and more knowledgeable about the situation in the West African country.
As a people, there is nothing wrong in identifying key issues in our growing democracy but going overboard to attempt to collapse the house all together methinks is unpatriotic, seditious, and unacceptable.
Taiwo Akerele wrote this piece from Washington DC
