Tinubu Team Tells Chimamanda Adichie That She'll Be Lucky To Escape Lawsuit Over Letter To Joe Biden On Nigeria Elections

 The special adviser communications to Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s President-elect, Dele Alake, has said global novelist Chimamanda Adichie may face a lawsuit over an allegation she made against the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu.

Ms Adichie, in an open letter to US President, Joe Biden, alleged that the INEC Chair, Mahmood Yakubu, may have been compromised by Mr Tinubu, who won the recent Nigeria's presidential election,

saying, “Many believe that the INEC chair has been “compromised”.

“…but there is no evidence of the astronomical U.S.-dollar amounts he is rumoured to have received from the president-elect. The extremely wealthy Tinubu is himself known to be an enthusiastic participant in the art of “compromising”; some Nigerians call him a “drug baron” because, in 1993, he forfeited to the United States government $460,000 of his income that a Chicago court determined to be proceeds from heroin trafficking,” she added.

Alake, in a response to Adichie on Friday said the popular writer will be lucky to avoid being asked to prove her allegation in court.

“Chimamanda will be lucky if she does not have to prove this weighty allegation in court,” he said.

The INEC Chairman, Prof, Yakubu has not responded to the allegation of bribery.