PRESIDENCY SLAMS KEMI BADENOCH OVER NEGATIVE COMMENTS AGAINST NIGERIA

PRESIDENCY SLAMS KEMI BADENOCH OVER NEGATIVE COMMENTS AGAINST NIGERIA

Nigerian Presidency has slammed the leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch for her continued onslaught against Nigeria.

Badenoch while delivering her first message for the year said Nigeria is a poor country that ruins lives of her citizens.

Citing the quality of life lived by her parents alongside her siblings while in Nigeria, Badenoch said her family became poor by merely living in the country.

However, reacting to the onslaught by the UK Conservative Party leader, Daniel Bwala, the spokesperson to the president on information and strategy said Badenoch’s constant derogatory comments against Nigeria would not affect the country.

Bwala while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily said Badenoch is only demarketing Nigeria so that she can win the acceptance of the rights of her party.

He said, “The only problem we have with Kemi, I think, is the rhetoric because Kemi belongs to the right base in the United Kingdom which is what you see in this populism around the world that you can deepen on your support system if you can feed off of the anger of the people.

“And so she’s building a rhetoric of denigrating Nigeria, demarketing in Nigeria, so she can probably win the acceptance or acceptation of the rights in her part,” Bwala said.

Further comparing Badenoch’s line of politics with her predecessor, Rishi Sunak, Bwala said her action is counterproductive.

“And that to me is counterproductive because if you look at Rishi Sunak, he is also of Indian origin. There has been this issue of gang rape in India.

“He has never used that as a weapon to promote what he believed to be a departure from what is likely to be believed as hereditary or history of the Indian people, but she has always denigrated Nigeria,” he added.