The APC Presidential Campaign Council spokesperson said her allegation of manipulation of the February 25 presidential poll was baseless.
On Thursday, Adichie told Biden that the exercise was marred with irregularities, accusing the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of looking the other way.
The novelist informed Biden that congratulating Tinubu who was “hastily” announced as president-elect tarnishes America’s commitment to democratic processes.
In a statement on Friday, Keyamo said the memo “reflects a pathetic colonial mentality”, mocking long epistles by “bitter sore losers posing as concerned citizens”.
The Minister of State, Labour and Employment noted that presidents make decisions and take actions based on reports from official as well as diplomatic sources.
Keyamo said it was befuddling that someone celebrated for using a God-given talent to promote African values, degraded that same ethos by penning a “petty letter”.
He claimed that urging a foreign power to withhold a “mere congratulatory message to a president-elect” is of no effect as it does not validate Nigeria’s democratic identity.
“It reflects a pathetic colonial mentality. The same foreign power to which the obsequious appeal is directed is still grappling with the credibility of its democratic process that produced its present leadership.”
Keyamo further described those falling over themselves in deluded ecstasy for “a worthless letter” as a band of drowning supporters clutching at any straw to stay afloat.
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ReplyDeleteGive it to Festus, he is indeed learned.
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DeleteI like him big time
Empty accolades
DeleteAPC matter must choke us. Obidients lead while others follow. Obidients acts while others wail
ReplyDeleteI truly understand now, that the PEN is mightier than the sword.
ReplyDeleteChimamanda Adichie is what Festus Keyamo can never be in life. There's no basis of comparison and there can never be.
I repeat again, that young man that went to work for Gani, would be ashamed of the man that you Keyamo have become.
So shanmeful and disgraceful.
Teejay, I found this online, I don’t think it matters now, but statistically, you sef reason am.
DeleteSouth West has 6 states, Peter Obi lost 5 states in SW; Ekiti, Osun, Ogun, Oyo, Ondo.
South South has 6 states, Peter Obi lost 3 states in SS; Rivers, Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom.
North Central has 6 states, Peter Obi lost 4 states in NC; Benue, Kogi, Kwara, and Niger.
North East has 6 states, Peter lost the entire 6 states in NE; Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba, and Yobe.
North West has 7 states, Peter Obi lost in the entire 7 NW states; Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, and Zamfara.
South East has 5 states, Peter Obi won the 5 SE states; Anambra, Ebonyi, Imo, Abia and Enugu.
Mr. Peter Obi won only South East region out of the 6 regions we have in Nigeria and his followers are expecting INEC or the Courts to declare him as winner because they thought it's only SE that voted in the presidential election.
All those expecting the court to declare Peter Obi as winner of this election after reading this analysis shows that PitObi's scam has bitten you deeply. PitObi is a con-artist using and exploiting his followers, the Obingos🤣
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DeleteDon't let them cry now @Anon1224
Anon@12:24, have u asked urself why he 'lost' those states. Why will he no 'lose' when his votes were being used to pad up the votes of the so called 'winner'. That is what LP is in court to thrash out. The issue is let the courts be fair and dispense justice. We are watching.
DeleteThrash out?
DeleteNawa o
Anon 13:41,
DeleteLeave the agbadoans to keep doing what they're paid for. Truth can be suppressed for ever.
Their name is sorry and they will be sleepless. We stand solid and no shaking.
They got us at 4am and declared a winner. Now we are getting them all day long. We are always read for a New Nigeria.
13:41: did u sincerely, in all honesty think that Obi won in the north? Tell urslf the truth, did u know that Obi didn’t even have a campaign office in some of the states up north? Did u know that LP didn’t even have other candidates for other appointments in some of the states up north? Don’t forget, the north has the numbers, he never won in kano, katsina and the rest. Go figure, so it’s not about padding up their votes with Lp’s votes, he didn’t really campaign up north and they didn’t vote him.
DeleteAnoy 15:25 let them continue to rant and wail this has been their way since 2015 and it won't stop till 2030. Orí lọ ń tà wọn.
DeleteHe's absolutely spot on
ReplyDeleteThe truth is, if people knew and read about world politics, they would know that Chimamanda’s letter to Biden is worthless, i say so because, we all know the West, to them politics is interest. They have to protect their interest first before protecting anybody’s, take it or not, they would rather risk their relationship with Ms Adichie than risk their relationship with the Nigerian govt. because of what they stand to gain.
ReplyDeletePeople that still think the US is credible enough to determine how credible other nation’s election is, are just delusional, when the world knows its own system is marred with irregularities.
Trump said something like that back then too
DeleteAnon, swears down.
DeleteThe USA dies not care about Nigeria! J am surprised Chimamanda doesn't know this.
They are only about their 'interest".
So the West is interested in the perpetuation of useless leaders in Nigeria until there's no Nigeria to deal with again ; or until she turns to another terrorist headquarter?
DeleteTheir own elections may not be perfect but at least they make sincere effort to do something about it. Which one does Nigeria ever do but seek new ways to frustrate the system? Pls let's not delude ourselves.
Anon 13:52,
DeleteIronically, they are the same people that want a better Nigeria and would do anything to japa. See them supporting fraud in the system.
They think we're all stupid and senseless.
Just imagine all this people wey leave for naija, and they think they know the USA more than us who have been living here for more than16years, work,schooled, votes, even participates in community outreaches. Make una Dey deceive unaselves. Do y’all know what an open letter is ? Even though it is addressed to president. Biden, it is also a form of implication. Meaning, you said you believed in this, Oya see opportunity now proofs yourself and let the whole world know that. Remember that she also talked about British prime minister too. I have said since after election that president. PO should take his case to UN. If the letter ni make sense why apc Dey shake ? Why their spokes persons Dey reply ? And someone said PO lost sw states, etc. what is rigging? That’s why he lost those states duh.
DeleteAnon 15:55, you that started America, if you have truly lived, worked and voted in the US for as long as u say u have, u would know that America does not ever venture into anything that does not have their interest. If there is nothing in it for America, you should know better, they don’t even waste their time and resources on it. And that is exactly the point we are trying to make here, Chimamanda’s letter to Biden, questioning why he congratulated Nigeria’s president elect was totally unnecessary, because she should know better that America would always side what would favour her and protect her interest.
DeleteSecondly, you say PO should go to the UN? Pls read up on International Law. The first principle of int’l law is the respect for the sovereignty of the nations within the int’l community, dont forget that Nigeria is still a sovereign nation with its laws, constitution intact. So the UN cannot just wake up because Obi took the case to them, and collect the “stolen mandate” like u all call it and hand over to him. Blv me, if there was ever that possibility, his great team of lawyers would have explored that option, secondly, he must have had recourse to the national courts before ever attempting the international route.
Additionally, don’t forget that they sent international observers, was it not on this blog that we read their report? And that is exactly what they are going to take back home, so on what basis would Biden or anybody even take any action, since the report of their representative in Naija said that it was a free and fair election, with minimal recorded cases of violence compared to all previous elections.
Finally, the earlier we all realise that the West, like i said earlier, are all for themselves first, the better. They would rather risk their relationship with PO than raisk it with the Nigerian govt. a world class example is the infamous endsars movt, when y’all were calling on them for help, what did they do? Interest, interest, interest!!!
Anon 18:06 leave them to wallow in their ignorance of how 🇺🇸 foreign policy works as if writing letters to the US President isn’t even done by elementary school kids! Ignorance is what Adichie is exploiting for populism. Any American can write Biden. Why did she release it? I’m a professional and a business person and I have called the White House at least twice, I lunch with my Senator. I prefer & love my anonymity.
DeleteShe so badly wants her people to think she is more than who she is. Biden staffers will pay more attention to a Wole Soyinka letter than hers. They probably shredded it after an auto-reply. America only interferes when their interest is at stake. PO has not shown that he is significantly different from the others. If you insult me it stays with you in Jesus name. I lost all hope for toxic obidients when they started insulting & dragging 88 year old Wole Soyinka online without putting his entire interview where he was critical of the other parties in context. It’s how Hitler& Mussolini’s, & North Korean, “dear leader” followers that do not want any voices of dissent started.
They want to turn Naija into a dear leader country. It’s not going to happen. Keep narrowing PO support base by turning friends into opponents and in-breeding folks like Ngozi Adichie’s ethnically driven populist words/empty letters to Biden!
Anon 15:55 you really think the West including the US wants good governance in Nigeria or any African country? How will they get cheap raw materials & cheap labor? Nigeria is of no strategic value to the US. See how quickly they rescued Kuwait when Iraq invaded it? See them in Ukraine spending $billions of our taxes?
DeleteThe earlier we realize the destinies of Africa is in its hands the better. That letter goes into the shredder as the west doesn’t care who rules Africa as long as they can continue to plunder the resources and get raw materials cheap. The sudden interest & visits by US officials to Ghana & other African countries is just the concern that China is displacing them in the exploitation of African resources and their cheap raw materials source will be blocked by Chinese influence. Like you I’ve lived here for decades, I’m an active Democratic Party member and know how hard it is to get them to help influence good governance in Africa.
This guy is ignorant
ReplyDeleteIt’s not a mere congratulatory message and he knows it
Why is the world celebrating the winner of a sham election that has people killed and regions disrupted from voting? The issue is not that Obi lost, the issue is the election was not free and fair
Colonial Mentality or not, she has told the world what happened and that's what really matters.
ReplyDeleteIlliteracy is when someone thinks theworld” needs Chimamanda’s inconsequential letter to Biden to tell them what is happening in Nigeria when there is the internet, Google, YouTube, Twitter, IG, FB name it! No offense but my Igbo friend says the men no longer go to college as much as before, that they send them to Lagos to go and start apprenticeship and “make money”. Is that true? If it is then it accounts for the half education and ignorance that is prevalent even among those who can afford smart phones and data!
DeleteLike it or not, Wole Soyinka is in the class of Shakespeare, Sam Beckett, Elliot, Nadine Gordimer and those intellectuals whose books require scholarly dissertation as opposed to simplistic novel writers. As a civil rights icon since the 60s, he is in a class of his own, crossing ethnic lines unlike Ms Adichie the Igbo tribalist. She doesn’t even hide her disdain for other 199 ethnicities in Nigeria. Her success is partly due to SM and I give her credit though there is a Ms Giwa-Amu in the UK who was under Achebe at the same time as Chimamanda who claimed Achebe gave her some of Ms Giwa-Amu’s scripts. There are charges of plagiarism against her online. The woman actually sued her but lost. She wants to use populism to cover up whispers of plagiarism allegations online.
I guess if British Ms Giwa-Amu had the mindset of obidients she will insist chimamanda’s novels are from her scripts, handed to Adichie by Achebe who mentored both of them. The story is online so no need to insult this Anon.
I stand with Keyamo on this. I like Adichie and believe she's a brilliant and outstanding personality but, like the characters in her novels, she's been bitten by that western big... she's an Americanah now. The letter to the POTUS was, i.m.o, unnecessary and truly reeks of a colonial mentality. The courts are there. Let's try to sort our problems in+ house first before inviting an (insincere and diabolical) third party.
ReplyDeleteIn-house solution u ppl have not been able to find to electricity, water, health care, education, roads, security, elections, etc., since 1960, is what u're still waiting to find.
DeleteAnybody waiting for in-house solution in Nigeria is either not being sincere with him/herself or is simply unserious.
Biden staff probably assigned an entry level staffer to reply. Calling the White House, talking or having lunch to and with a Senator or Rep isn’t a huge deal here. I called the White House even during Trump’s hostile era on issues affecting my business economic sector, called Pelosi and my Senator and spoke to the relevant staff members. My senator’s office calls or speaks to me whenever I need anything done by them. They serve the constituents not the other way round. Clout chasers and those who live on SM want folks to think it’s a huge deal, that they are so important hence the leaking of the letter. The government here is not perfect but very accessible. We just don’t do our home work. If some groups can compile a list of the home addresses of houses bought with stolen public funds by looters of the treasury in the US with the positions they held in Nigeria & their actual salaries, there are groups in the diaspora that will work to get government to freeze the assets. Our only hesitation is that the returned money will still be looted. When Nigeria gets a good non establishment government or reverts to regional rule, that will be the first thing because looting & stealing public funds should have consequences but the youths are busy fighting ethnic battles for 2 corrupt guys, they ignored folks like Moghalu, Sowore for the same establishment guys.
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ReplyDeleteWhen u go borrowing from the west, it's not colonial mentality but when they report u to the same West, it is now colonial mentality. Y'all and ur supporters don't kuku have sense like that, don't expect anything sensible from that camp.
ReplyDeleteThere is a difference between an idea/concept/epistemology/understanding and finance/economics/market/indices. Understand that first then make your comment. What Keyamo said is right on point. But the loss you are still nursing can’t make you see beyond such rational submission. Take your L wholeheartedly. You will be fine later.
DeleteTomorrow Festus will change mouth
DeleteSaying “a whole swath of people “do not have sense don’t expect anything sensible from them” 😳says more about who you are than many who voted the man you did not support. It’s democracy and freedom to choose no matter how much you disdain it even while living in a democratic western country. It’s the Hitler-Mussolini followers mentality to say they all “don’t have sense”. Have you ever voted in Portugal? I doubt you became a citizen & started voting immediately. It has a high freedom score because of freedom by supporters of both PS and PSD the two major parties to voice their opinions regardless of who rules. Online mcoluomos are the same as the street mcoluomo. He can iflict physical wounds while his online counterparts can inflict mental health wounds that could lead to suicide!
DeleteSome just live in their “Naija cocoon in the west” without imbibing any of the good values like civility in public discourse when opinions differ. Don’t bother insulting a 60 year old, it backfires in Jesus name as I see you have a smart mouth.
Nigeria needs to go back to the time when we had different regions, whereby each region had its own autonomy and leader. The western region then developed at a fast rate because there was no need to deal with the issues of the other regions. United Arab Emirates practises something similar such that each state in the emirate is independent but the leader is part of a supreme council. This will allow each region to progress at its own rate.
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DeleteThis is common sense
DeleteEntitled lazy liabilities don't do common sense
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DeleteNigeria needs to go back to the time when we had different regions, whereby each region had its own autonomy and leader. The western region then developed at a fast rate because there was no need to deal with the issues of the other regions. United Arab Emirates practises something similar such that each state in the emirate is independent but the leader is part of a supreme council. This will allow each region to progress at its own rate.
ReplyDeleteAguiyi Ironsi eliminated the regional system of government after the first coup of January 15th 1966 brought him to power. He issued a decree cancelling the regional system and turned Nigeria into a Unitary state where power is concentrated in the center. The battle to get a true federation endures until today. The US is a true federation. Alaska has a lot of oil and Alaskans get Checks from their state government for the oil. Others do not. Many southern states have huge sales tax but zero income tax…that’s a true federation.
DeleteWhat I don’t understand is that the group that executed a lopsided coup, cancelled the regional system of goverment because they dominated the Officer cadre of the military at the time are the ones always crying victimization. History is not the same as emotion. Read up on the unitary vs federal system. The regional or federal system was better. The quest to dominate others brought Nigeria this path and it backfired on the promoters. Now they abuse Soyinka forgetting he was in solitary confinement for supporting another ethnic group other than his. He was for everyone’s rights just like his cousins Fela, Beko & Olikoye Ransome Kuti. He never made illegal money, he could have used his global influence and become a $ millionaire or billionaire like those they adore but he remained a man of integrity. Now they are comparing him to this neophyte who cannot be compared in intellectual literary circles to Soyinka, Achebe or even Flora Nwapa and Cyprian Ekwensi. She grew up and wrote in the SM era of lowered expectations & standards. That is good for her but she is not a nationalist like Soyinka or even Achebe.
I LOVE YOUR SUBMISSION! They don't read yet they want everyone to be gullible and bias like them! Enough of the emotional blackmail!! Now we know what their aims are. Adichie ko, etichiere ni
DeleteCitizens of the Federal Republic of Corruption do not be like Festus Keyamo. He exchanged his soul for filthy lucre and the promise of a political appointment. The almighty will judge your soul at the end of your life.
ReplyDeleteHow I respected this lady before only to discover she's part of these brainwashed senseless non rational nonentities believing Obi will win election through tribal and religious sentiments. I have stopped taking them seriously and the north have indeed been awakened. No Muslim northerner will ever vote anyone else. Imagine people thinking they were supporting someone for a better Nigeria and his own agenda was that he was fighting a religious war.
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