UK-based activist: Kemi Badenoch has pressed her self-destruct button

Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, a Nigerian born UK-based lawyer and women’s right activist, says Kemi Badenoch, Conservative Party leader, has “pressed her self-destruct button” with her repeated denigration of Nigeria.

Recently on the Rosebud Podcast, Badenoch made headlines when she stated she had not renewed her Nigerian passport in over 20 years.

She said she no longer identifies with Nigeria or feel connected to the country.

“I’m Nigerian through ancestry … but by identity, I’m not really,” Badenoch said, adding that “home” is now where her family and political life in the UK are based.

Speaking when she featured on Leading Britain’s Conversation on Sunday, Mos-Shogbamimu said Badenoch was on a “pick-me expedition” to appeal to a certain group of white people.

The lawyer further said the UK opposition leader is selling a narrative that has only made her “more unlikeable and unrelatable” to the people she is supposedly trying to please.

“Absolutely nothing. Kemi Badenoch has clearly pressed her self destruct button and is taking a humiliation tour that quite frankly the public should just sit back and enjoy cos it’s quite entertaining,” Mos-Shogbamimu said.

“This is her pick me expedition in which she’s trying to sell her back story but she’s only succeeded in making herself more unlikeable and unrelatable every single time she opens her mouth.

“You know why? It’s because Kemi Badenoch has no story to tell, no hardship to sell and she has no roots of authenticity. The one thing that makes her authentic, she just thoroughly rejected.”

The activist criticised Badenoch’s portrayal of her upbringing, saying she could have told her boarding school story as one of resilience, but instead “chose to be a 45-year-old spoilt brat with PTSD from doing chores.”

“She could have kept Nigeria out of her God-forsaken mouth but in order to make herself palatable to certain white people, she thinks she needs to come across as more British so that they don’t say you need to go back where you came from when the reality is that the people she’s peddling to want to deport her as well,” she said.

“She’s trying so hard to cater to a certain demographic that she doesn’t see that she becomes repugnant to them. The problem with gatekeepers like Kemi Badenoch is that they do not understand that their relevance and usefulness to white supremacy has an expiration date.”