UK Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch | File Image
By Valentine Amanze
Nigeria’s former Aviation Minister, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, has joined the Vice President, Kashim Shettima, in castigating Kemi Badenoch,
the UK born Conservative Party leader, for condemning corruption and insecurity in Nigeria.
Badenoch had also stated on her X handle, @KemiBadenoch: “I am not doing PR for Nigeria,” after the Bola Tinubu-leadership tried to woo her.
Irked by her statatement, Fani-Kayode, a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), via his X handle, @realFFK, stated that her services were not needed in Nigeria.
His words: “No you are not & neither do we need or want you to. You are however doing PR for the House Ni*gers Association & the racist, fascist scum that constitutes the far right wing of your adopted country.
“Do us a favour by shutting your foul mouth, dropping ‘Kemi’ as your name & changing it to ‘Aunty Jemimah’ instead.”
Recall that Kemi Badenoch stood by her past comments about Nigeria, after the vice-president of the West African country accused her of denigrating it.
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The Conservative Party leader, who was born in the UK but mostly raised in Nigeria, has repeatedly described growing up in fear and insecurity in a country plagued by corruption.
On Monday, Nigerian Vice-President Kashim Shettima suggested Badenoch could “remove the Kemi from her name” if she was not proud of her “nation of origin”.
Asked about Shettima’s comments, Badenoch’s spokesman said she “stands by what she says” and “is not the PR for Nigeria”.
Born Olukemi Adegoke in Wimbledon in 1980, she grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, and in the United States where her physiology professor mother lectured.
She returned to the UK at the age of 16 to live with a friend of her mother because of the worsening political and economic situation in Nigeria, and to study for her A-levels.
After marrying Scottish banker, Hamish Badenoch, she took her husband’s surname.
At the Conservative Party conference this year, Badenoch contrasted the freedoms she experienced in the UK to her childhood in Lagos “where fear was everywhere”.
She vividly described the city as lawless, recalling hearing “neighbours scream as they are being burgled and beaten – and wondering if your home will be next”.
Last week during a tour of the US, she described her home city as “a place where almost everything seemed broken”.
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