Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election puts America’s Joe Biden in a bind
By Rotimi Akinola
If Biden congratulates INEC’s winner, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the American’s political rivals could chorus ‘birds of a feather’.
The election that put Biden in the White House happened in 2020, but his predecessor, Donald Trump, is yet to concede defeat, repeatedly claiming that the exercise was no less than robbery at the ballot.
Labour Party’s Peter Obi and his running mate Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed have signified no less about the purported electoral victory of Tinubu, and millions of Nigerians, most of them youth, think the same about the February 25 ‘election’.
Should Biden do the unthinkable and condemn the Nigerian exercise, Tinubu’s backers could rewind to 2020 and drag the American leader into the company of electoral robbers.
‘If you call our electoral victory fraudulent, how did you defeat Trump?’
One of Obi’s judicial prayer is for the courts to disqualify Tinubu because of his alleged involvement in drug trafficking. Biden is, on his part, trying to ward off allegations of money laundering and bribery in Ukraine and China.
The American leader can only stay silent as long as Tinubu is not sworn-in. If the president-elect becomes the president, what will Biden do?
Those who think it doesn’t matter should go and watch the interview Navy Commodore Kunle Olawunmi (retd) granted Channels TV in August 2021.
In that interview, Olawunmi claimed that the CIA, with Tinubu’s help, installed Muhammadu Buhari as president.
During Tinubu’s ‘Emi lokan’ rant in Abeokuta, he said, “It’s been thirty years since I’ve been slaving for them. I too want to become president. It’s my turn”.
Many have taken the ‘them’ in that context for Buhari’s CPC but it could well mean the CIA.
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Culled from Rotimi Akinola
