Former Aviation Minister and Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Femi Fani-Kayode, has joined his party colleague, Festus Keyamo, to condemn the Nigerian novelist, Chimamanda Adichie, over a letter to the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden.

Integrity News reported that the novelist, in a letter on Thursday, titled, “Hollow Democracy”, berated the United States government for congratulating Nigeria’s President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, after his success at the February 25 polls.

She alleged the process in the presidential election that produced Tinubu was not only marred by technical faults but ‘deliberately manipulated’ by the electoral umpire.

While responding to the letter, Fani-Kayode, who is also a director of special operations and new media of the APC presidential campaign council, said the letter belongs to “the bottom of a public toilet.”

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Fani-Kayode stated describing the young novelist as “over-rated and Igbocentric new age diva” whose lesson is not needed in Nigeria.

“Neither do we need to respond to her self-serving, self-seeking, jaundiced, subjective, partial, primitive, tribal observations and implausible ethno-religious sentiments.

“Neither do we need to respond to her self-serving, self-seeking, jaundiced, subjective, partial, primitive, tribal observations and implausible ethno-religious sentiments.

“If anyone needs to know that lawlessness has consequences it is her candidate Peter and not the Nigerian people.

“And if anything is hollow it is her well-manicured diva head and not our democracy.

“She is not in this league and she would do well to stick to writing fairy tales,” he said.

The former aviation minister added, “Running to foreign leaders to report your compatriots does not sit well with me no matter what your Uncle Tom credentials may be.

“If you do not have respect for your own people and nation and if you have to go cap in hand to foreigners for validation then you are not worthy of being called a human being let alone a Nigerian.

“Africa has come of age. We do not need to get a congratulatory note from any Western nation before we sleep well at night.

“This is not some Hollywood film script or fantasy fairy tale.”