Nigeria’s former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode recently stated that Chimamanda Adichie, a United States-based Nigerian novelist, is “suffering from low self-esteem” by writing an open letter to the president of United States, a country which is also encountering many socio-economic challenges.
The former Minister made this statement while reacting to Adichie’s open letter.
His statement read: “Chimamanda Adichie’s “hollow democracy” diatribe is a shitty little submission, in a shitty little letter, written by a shitty little diva.
“It was hardly worth my time to read and ordinarily I would not have bothered. Like all faecal waste, it belongs in one place and one place alone: the bottom of a public toilet.
“We do not need any lessons from this over-rated and Igbocentric new age diva. Neither do we need to respond to her self-serving, self-seeking, jaundiced, subjective, partial, primitive, tribal observations and implausible ethnoreligious 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. 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. This is about the destiny, future, welfare and fortune of 250 million Nigerian people who deserve to have their place under the sun as a free, progressive and independent nation and not to be treated like some vassal state or an appendage of others.
“What this unpatriotic, hate-filled and overrated little diva has written is nothing but a long-winded, empty, tendentious and boring epistle of dishonest garbage.
“It is a litany of unwholesome mendacities designed to undermine our democracy, impress her global audience and incite her local ‘Obidient’ tribesmen against the Nigerian people and state.
“It is a reflection of her low self-esteem and inability to grasp the fact that no nation or people on earth are perfect in all their ways and that the America she is reporting us to is also in many ways questionable and flawed and faced with many challenges.
“The little diva is not worthy of much of our attention. She deserves nothing from us except ridicule, scorn and contempt.”
“She should give us a break, spare the world her unsolicited counsel, desist from denigrating her nation from a foreign land, stop reporting Nigeria to her slave masters and, as President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda would say, “go and eat her mother’s something.”
Nigerians have reacted to this statement. Read some of the reactions below:
@Princeujay tweeted: “Low self-esteem is when a man like @realFFK assaults his wife and continues to have failed marriages.”
@eligible_adams tweeted: “Same US lai moha ran to accuse Datti and Obi Does these people think at all?”
@Bazzblaz tweeted: “His normal tricks. Am sure Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie understands these provocating tricks. When you’re strong, he calls you weak when he knows you’re something good he calls you the opposite just for provocation. We have read him like a book. Psychology no be ur papa mate o. Lol!”
@NkeonyelubaL tweeted: “If you have issues with Chimamanda, go to court.”
@kachi_dguy tweeted: “If the United States have several challenges and of less value in your eyes as one of the APC town criers and propagandist; why the long trip to the US and persistent lobby for them to recognize a drug baron/narcotics trafficker and a sham election condemned home and abroad.”
@amxteve tweeted: “Oga keep quiet jare you too Dey talk ah aaha ejo yii sha niiii.”
@SamuelIse3 tweeted: “When others are talking I so much expect you to keep quiet, a domestic violence man, whose usually beats his wife, is not supposed to be taking when other respected people are talking too.”
@WGCDDNEX tweeted: “FFK continue to go lower and lower. He is not even worthy of being Chimamanda’ gate man and he’s here spewing rubbish.”
@MercySewuese tweeted: “He can never give birth to a child like Chimamanda or be like her,in his family he don’t have anybody that’s as good as Chimamanda.”
@FemiOlomide tweeted: “Tell us from all what she said, which one of it they pain you and which one is lie?”
@ordained07 tweeted: “We know those with high esteem by how well they beat their wives and how highly they can be corrupt.”
@FolarinStephen2 tweeted: “From A woman beater. What else could be low esteem?”
@ZigaFreeman tweeted: “But this was the same person that tweeted and was begging the US President to congratulate Tinubu. Is he not what he just described someone as, since Biden’s congratulations would have authenticated Tinubu’s selection?”
@itaka_Sunday tweeted: “She is brilliant than u.”
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