Nigeria’s Vice President, Kashim Shettima, has knocked the newly elected United Kingdom’s Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch accusing her of disparaging her country of origin, Nigeria.
In 2022, Badenoch accused Nigerian politicians of using public funds for their private matters and after she was elected as UK Conservative Party leader in November 2024, the FG, through the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM, tried to reach out to Badenoch but the Chairman of NIDCOM, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said her office received no response from Badenoch’s.
Shettima speaking on Monday, December 9 at the 10th Annual Migration Dialogue at the State House in Abuja said;
“Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the British Labour or Conservative Party. We are proud of her in spite of her efforts at denigrating her nation of origin.
“She is entitled to her own opinions; she has even every right to remove the Kemi from her name but that does not underscore the fact that the greatest black nation on earth is the nation called Nigeria.
“One out of every three, four black men is a Nigerian and by 2050, Nigeria will surpass the United States, and will be the third most populous nation on earth.”