{"id":85871,"date":"2023-04-08T19:33:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T18:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/chimamandas-letter-undermines-nigerias-democracy-incites-obidients-fani-kayode"},"modified":"2023-04-08T20:43:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T19:43:20","slug":"chimamandas-letter-undermines-nigerias-democracy-incites-obidients-fani-kayode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/chimamandas-letter-undermines-nigerias-democracy-incites-obidients-fani-kayode","title":{"rendered":"Chimamanda\u2019s letter undermines Nigeria\u2019s democracy, incites Obidients \u2013 Fani-Kayode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Social critic, Femi Fani-Kayode has knocked Chimamanda Adichie over her letter to United States President, Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The author had condemned the election of the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu and the conduct of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Saturday, Fani-Kayode said Nigeria does not need any lessons from an \u201coverrated and Igbocentric new age diva\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He called the letter \u201ca litany of unwholesome mendacities designed to undermine our democracy, impress her global audience and incite her local \u2018Obidient\u2019 tribesmen against the state\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>FFK accused Chimamanda of \u201cself-serving, self-seeking, jaundiced, subjective, partial, primitive, tribal observations and implausible ethnoreligious sentiments\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The former presidential aide said if anyone needs to know that lawlessness has consequences, \u201cit is her candidate Peter and not the people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Fani-Kayode noted that anyone running to foreign leaders to report compatriots for validation \u201cis not worthy of being called a human being let alone a Nigerian\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfrica has come of age. We do not need to get a congratulatory note from any Western nation before we sleep well at night,\u201d the statement added<\/p>\n<p>The former minister called Chimamanda\u2019s memo \u201cnothing but a long-winded, empty, tendentious and boring epistle of dishonest garbage\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added that no nation or people are perfect and that the America she is reporting to \u201cis also in many ways questionable, flawed and faced with many challenges\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Fani-Kayode advised the novelist to stop denigrating her nation from a foreign land and stop complaining about Nigeria \u201cto her slave masters\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Social critic, Femi Fani-Kayode has knocked Chimamanda Adichie over her letter to United States President, Joe Biden. The author had condemned the election of the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu and the conduct of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. In a statement on Saturday, Fani-Kayode said Nigeria does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":85869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,10163,230,254],"class_list":["post-85871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-chimamanda","tag-fani-kayode","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chimamanda\u2019s letter undermines Nigeria\u2019s democracy, incites Obidients \u2013 Fani-Kayode - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Social critic, Femi Fani-Kayode has knocked Chimamanda Adichie over her letter to United States President, Joe Biden. 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