Nigerian award-winning novelist, Chimamanda Adichie, has insisted that Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party, won the 2023 election.

Speaking at the inaugural lecture of the African World Lecture Series at Princeton University in the US on Wednesday, the novelist introduced Obi as “the man who won the presidential election”.

During a side chat, the writer introduced Obi to her audience as the man who, according to popular opinion, won the presidential election.

“I want to recognise the presence of a man I deeply respect and a man who I think is a beacon of hope not just for Nigeria but for Africa. And he’s the man who many of us know won the election in Nigeria,” Adichie said.

“He’s also an example of that very rare quality in politicians which is genuine humility.”

Adichie said some of her literary works were inspired by rage stirred up by the happenings in Nigeria, particularly referencing the elections.

She had written US President Joe Biden expressing dissatisfaction over the process of the presidential election which she said was not marred by technical faults but deliberately manipulated.

In her letter, Adichie said the elections were full of discrepancies and irregularities which were all shunned by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).