From Chimamanda Adichie: President-elect Tinubu, your silence is no longer golden, By Odion Omonfoman
From Chimamanda Adichie: President-elect Tinubu, your silence is no longer golden, By Odion Omonfoman
President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu
Dear Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,
Allow me to congratulate you and your party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), on your victory in the presidential election and being declared president-elect by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) . I am not a card-carrying member of the APC, but I voted for the APC because you were the only presidential candidate among the three main candidates who I believe had the ability, the experience and a broad national political support to implement the much needed economic reforms and policies in Nigeria.
Following the election and declaration of your victory as President-elect by INEC, there has been a sustained and vicious media campaign to discredit and delegitimize not only your victory, but the whole of Presidential election, dare I say and from my own voting experience, was peaceful, credible and reflected voter choice - at least in my voting area.
So, President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu, allow me to respectfully state that your inaction, especially as these subversive elements continue their attacks to jeopardize our democracy and delegitimize the February 25 elections, is not what is required now. You must and should take the legal means at your disposal to uphold the faith and trust I expressed in you and in the APC, through my vote of February 25.
Before the presidential election, as your supporter, I (and many of your other supporters) endured months of vicious, malicious and downright degrading and virulent attacks and provocations on social media, primarily from supporters of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the presidential candidate of the Labor Party (LP). You had to endure the same too, while choosing to maintain a dignified silence and focus on the task of winning the presidential election. Your stoic attitude in ignoring the attacks, the insults, the degrading caricature of your person and the ridiculous attempts to criminalize your medical condition, has given me and your supporters the confidence to continue my support for your candidacy. , without giving in to provocations.
The nationwide suffering caused by the ill-advised and perhaps politically motivated naira overhaul policy and the cashless policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has become fodder for more political provocations and vicious online social media attacks against the APC and your supporters. Interestingly, you were the only presidential candidate who spoke out against the CBN's evil twin monetary policies, while calling on the CBN Governor and President Muhammadu Buhari to reverse the naira overhaul policy in the interest of ordinary Nigerians who had been unfairly denied their own money. deposited with commercial banks. The Labor Party presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, is said to have advised Nigerians to support the CBN's naira overhaul policy, which has effectively become a naira confiscation policy, evidently in the hope of benefiting in terms of of voices, of the widespread public anger against the APC that the policy has provoked.
Thank goodness everything went well for you and your party! Today, no one, even your most vocal opposition or critic, can claim that your well-deserved victory and declaration as president-elect was the result of vote-buying or incitement to vote in species.
The elections are now over. But in seeking to discredit and subvert a popular mandate freely given to you by Nigerians, it appears that many supporters of the LP presidential candidate have taken political provocations and virulent social media propaganda to dangerous levels that threaten henceforth our democracy and our national sovereignty. I refer specifically to the letter to President Joe Biden from Ms. Chimamanda Adichie, first published in The Atlantic, an American magazine and multiplatform publisher on April 6. Since its publication, the letter has been reproduced or reported by various online and traditional media around the world.
Allow me to congratulate you and your party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), on your victory in the presidential election and being declared president-elect by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) . I am not a card-carrying member of the APC, but I voted for the APC because you were the only presidential candidate among the three main candidates who I believe had the ability, the experience and a broad national political support to implement the much needed economic reforms and policies in Nigeria.
Following the election and declaration of your victory as President-elect by INEC, there has been a sustained and vicious media campaign to discredit and delegitimize not only your victory, but the whole of Presidential election, dare I say and from my own voting experience, was peaceful, credible and reflected voter choice - at least in my voting area.
So, President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu, allow me to respectfully state that your inaction, especially as these subversive elements continue their attacks to jeopardize our democracy and delegitimize the February 25 elections, is not what is required now. You must and should take the legal means at your disposal to uphold the faith and trust I expressed in you and in the APC, through my vote of February 25.
Before the presidential election, as your supporter, I (and many of your other supporters) endured months of vicious, malicious and downright degrading and virulent attacks and provocations on social media, primarily from supporters of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the presidential candidate of the Labor Party (LP). You had to endure the same too, while choosing to maintain a dignified silence and focus on the task of winning the presidential election. Your stoic attitude in ignoring the attacks, the insults, the degrading caricature of your person and the ridiculous attempts to criminalize your medical condition, has given me and your supporters the confidence to continue my support for your candidacy. , without giving in to provocations.
The nationwide suffering caused by the ill-advised and perhaps politically motivated naira overhaul policy and the cashless policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has become fodder for more political provocations and vicious online social media attacks against the APC and your supporters. Interestingly, you were the only presidential candidate who spoke out against the CBN's evil twin monetary policies, while calling on the CBN Governor and President Muhammadu Buhari to reverse the naira overhaul policy in the interest of ordinary Nigerians who had been unfairly denied their own money. deposited with commercial banks. The Labor Party presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, is said to have advised Nigerians to support the CBN's naira overhaul policy, which has effectively become a naira confiscation policy, evidently in the hope of benefiting in terms of of voices, of the widespread public anger against the APC that the policy has provoked.
Thank goodness everything went well for you and your party! Today, no one, even your most vocal opposition or critic, can claim that your well-deserved victory and declaration as president-elect was the result of vote-buying or incitement to vote in species.
The elections are now over. But in seeking to discredit and subvert a popular mandate freely given to you by Nigerians, it appears that many supporters of the LP presidential candidate have taken political provocations and virulent social media propaganda to dangerous levels that threaten henceforth our democracy and our national sovereignty. I refer specifically to the letter to President Joe Biden from Ms. Chimamanda Adichie, first published in The Atlantic, an American magazine and multiplatform publisher on April 6. Since its publication, the letter has been reproduced or reported by various online and traditional media around the world.
President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu
