The way Kemi Badenoch is going around and about, shading Nigeria in the most unflattering fashion, you would wonder if the contest for British PM office is between her Conservative Party and Nigeria. I mean, where is the bile from this vilest form of reckless commentary coming from?
Folorunso Fatai Adisa, a friend of mine, resident student in UK cracked a joke sometime ago asking if there was a man in Nigeria that broke Kemi’s heart. I will now throw up some names who ought to have “femi” and pampered Kemi but probably snubbed her? Femi Fani Kayode, Femi Adeshina, Femi Akinwunmi. You should all explain why you did not “FÉ’KEMI” and save us this buccal horror. Because for me, this parroting of lies and fictional verbosity against the Nigerian nation is only fathomable from the ratiocination of a failed romance. Nigeria appears like a boyfriend who has jilted you or that you have jilted but that you cannot get over. But should she take it out on the whole country?
I know there have been jokes and innuendos about Kemi’s disintegration of virtue, but within this haze of fury and disgust, let’s crunch some data that scrutinizes her angst and misrepresentation against immigrants.
According to information from the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), immigrants to the UK, particularly those from outside the EU, have contributed significantly to the British economy by paying more in taxes than they receive in benefits and public services, with estimates bordering a positive net of around £4.6 billion. In a Feb 12, 2025 report from the Office for National Statistics, immigrants contribute approximately £83 billion (Eighty Three Billion Pounds Sterling) to the UK’s economic output annually. And when you look at the number of educated Nigerians in the United Kingdom, from Doctors to Nurses and across various sectors of professional endeavor, you imagine how much Nigerians contribute to the UK in societal impact. But how does attacking Nigeria add to Kemi’s leverage as an electoral asset for the Tories? Before 2024, approximate 270,768 were born in Nigeria and were living in England and Wales. Those who identify their ethnicity as Nigerians were 271,390. This represents just 0.5% of the whole UK population. So, of what value will denigrating Nigeria be to Kemi?
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Why is it that rather than concentrate on a campaign strategy that positions her above the Labour Party, she narrows her campaign thrust to Nigeria and continues to lampoon immigrants like they’re parasitic without value. It is simple: The current anti-immigrant wave which propelled Donald Trump to office is Kemi’s playbook. She is of a strong opinion that any candidate who can pillory immigrants will appeal to the sentiments of the white superimacist voting bloc, whose numbers are critical for office. And considering that about 52,000 Nigerians relocated to the UK in 2024, Kemi, being clever by half found no issues with Pakistani, Bangladeshi or Indian immigrants. She elected to hang her own people, her own heritage by the noose. Kemi is fulfilling in perfect summation, the description of Edwin Louis Cole that “the pattern of the prodigal is rebellion and ruin”. Even as he ended the quote with “repentance and restoration”, I do not see that happening from Kemi.
She’s a lost cause, especially as James Boswell aptly reinforces the myopia of wilful bastards when he said “if a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous”. We should therefore understand that Kemi Badenoch’s deliberate spin of falsehoods and her obsequious and servile, attention-seeking denigration of immigrants, many of them who contribute to the growth of the UK are indicative of a patronizing, virtue-signaling to fit into a psycho-genocidal fiction, where immigrants are perceived as irritants and possess the nuisance reverse-value for campaign troll, preparatory to policy of extinction. Unfortunately, however, no mater how she tries to disassemble the links to her heritage, this conservatives’ wannabe-racist’s names are Olukemi Olufunto. She’s Yoruba from Nigeria and a daughter of immigrants. She was born in England, taken back to Nigeria, enjoyed Nigeria’s communal culture and warmth and was not taken back to the UK until she was 16.
No matter how Kemi tries therefore, she’ll never be WHITE and the real Brits know themselves. She can aim for office, that ambition is within her rights, but undermining the dignity of other races reflect poorly on her. The ideal beauty in virtue is, ambition can drive us to aspire, but it should not be by offering a whole race on a slab for slaughter. Moreso, Kemi ought not to weaponize her children in crass dishonesty for political gain. And for this, history will not judge her kindly. And that office, she may not get. Her day of ridicule may be near. But in the circumstance of her latest duplicitous rant, the Federal Government of Nigeria should communicate a demand to RIGHT OF REPLY to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria to debunk the latest stench Kemi just released like a fart. Reno Omokri will do a good job of this. Time to dispatch him is now!
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Finally, whoever has the responsibility as Kemi’s Hairdresser and general grooming should do a better job. It may seem no matter how they try, she looks numerous ages past her real age.
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