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‘I don’t do PR for Nigeria’: Kemi Badenoch hits back at Shettima

The leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, has berated Vice President Kashim Shettima over the latter’s reaction to her comments about Nigeria.

Badenoch was born in the UK in 1980 to Nigerian Yoruba parents.

Badenoch, who grew up in Nigeria before departing the country for the UK at the age of 16, before she was elected Conservative Party’s leader, described Nigeria as a nation brimming with thieving politicians and insecurity.

However, Shettima, while speaking at the 10th Annual Migration Dialogue at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Monday, December 9, 2024, accused Badenoch of “denigrating her country of origin” with her remarks.

Shettima slams Kemi Badenoch for denigrating Nigeria

The vice-president listed influential people whose families had migrated to other countries, commending former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as a “brilliant young man, he never denigrated his nation of ancestry”.

Reacting on Wednesday, December 11, Badenoch lashed out at Shettima, saying she doesn’t do “PR for Nigeria”.

Speaking through her spokesperson, the Tory leader, according to UK Express, said: “Kemi is not interested in doing Nigeria’s PR, she is the Leader of the Opposition in the UK.

“She tells the truth, she tells it like it is, she isn’t going to couch her words. She stands by what she said.”

The Star

Segun Ojo

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