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Rejecting National Award, Taking Chieftaincy Title Hurts Igbo Presidency – Brymo Slams Chimamanda

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January 01, (THEWILL) – Olawale Oloforo, aka Brymo, has stated that Chimamanda Adichie’s rejection of a national award hurts the quest for the Igbo presidency.

The singer took to Twitter after Adichie bagged a chieftaincy title in Abba, Anambra state.

In October 2022, Adichie rejected a national award offered to her by President Muhammadu Buhari.

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Adichie was to receive the order of federal republic (OFR) award at a ceremony that took place on October 11.

However, the author neither attended the event nor accepted the award, conveying her non-acceptance privately.

After Adichie’s chieftaincy title became public knowledge, Brymo stated that she rejected the national award months ago, yet accepted a village chieftaincy. He added that it comes across as a jab at the Igbo presidency and the campaign of Peter Obi.

“Five years ago, I advocated for an Igbo president to heal the country and form a cohesion.

“Chimamanda refusing national honours, yet accepting chieftaincy title in her village, is a jab to Peter Obi’s race. She’s an eastern mother. She’s that important. This conversation is not about elections.

“It’s about our collective healing. It would have been nice if Chimamanda took the award, then stated her reasons.

“‘Like, they gave me this award. I shouldn’t have taken it because Biafra is not healed but I did for the youth.’ She shouldn’t have rejected it just like that. It doesn’t affect the rest of us as it affects the Igbo presidency and Peter Obi.

“Seeking the office, yet rejecting things from it is blackmail. I will be happy if we can just forgive ourselves.”

Adichie, who had in the not-so-distant past aired her disapproval of the current government’s response to matters of public importance, was not the first of her kind in Nigeria’s literary community to reject a national award.

Chinua Achebe, who died in 2013, had rejected national awards on two different occasions in 2004 and 2011.

He had aired his dissatisfaction with the handling of the country’s affairs by the Olusegun Obasanjo administration.

Wole Soyinka, the Nobel Laureate, similarly rejected the centenary award from the federal government in 2014.

In 2016, Adichie said that Buhari wasted the chance to make real reforms in the early days of his government.

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