Renowned award winning writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has revealed why she threw her weight behind the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, in the just concluded election.
Speaking during a chat on Arise News on Monday, Chimamanda said her support for Peter Obi was rooted in his capacity to deliver like he did when he was governor of Anambra state.
She stated that her support for Obi had nothing to do with the fact that they are from the same ethnic group and that those who are making it about tribe are only accusing her of what they are doing.
She posited that her support for the actualisation of Obi’s presidency is because his record of performance, especially his love for education.
She added that those who wanted people to believe that her support for Obi was because of he’s Igbo are mere trying to sidestep the issue she raised in her letter to president Joe Biden of the United States.
she said: “tribesman is such an outdated and strange expression, which I think also says something about whoever is using it. I think that that kind of accusation is a practice of what psychologists call projecting. So you’re doing something but then you accuse someone else of doing it, even though they’re not,” she added.
“So this idea of sort of ethnicity is just really again, I think it’s a way of deflecting, let’s focus on what really matters,” she said
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