Kemi Badenoch’s Misleading Claims on CNN: Nigeria Deserves Right of Reply on Fareed Zakaria’s Show
Kemi Badenoch’s constant disparaging remarks about Nigeria make one wonder if her Conservative Party and Nigeria are competing for the position of British prime minister. I mean, where is the source of the bile from this most heinous kind of careless commentary?
A friend of mine who is a resident student in the UK, Folorunso Fatai Adisa, made a joke a while back by asking if Kemi had ever been betrayed by a man in Nigeria. I’ll now list a few people who should have “femi” and lavished Kemi with attention but most likely ignored her. Femi Akinwunmi, Femi Adeshina, and Femi Fani Kayode. All of you ought to give an explanation for why you didn’t “FÉ’KEMI” and spare us this buccal nightmare. Because this repetition of falsehoods and fictitious language against the Nigerian people only makes sense to me in the context of a failed romance. Nigeria seems like a boyfriend who has betrayed you or someone you have betrayed but are unable to move forward from. But should she vent her frustration on the entire nation?
Let’s examine certain facts that examine Kemi’s distress and deception against immigration, even if I am aware that there have been jokes and innuendos about her lack of moral character.
By paying more in taxes than they receive in benefits and public services, immigrants to the UK—especially those from outside the EU—have made a substantial contribution to the British economy, according to data from the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM). Estimates of this contribution hover around a positive net of £4.6 billion. According to a report released by the Office for National Statistics on February 12, 2025, immigrants make up around £83 billion (eighty three billion pounds sterling) in economic production in the United Kingdom each year. You can only understand the extent of Nigerians’ contributions to the UK’s society when you consider the number of highly educated Nigerians working in the country, from doctors to nurses and other professional fields. However, how does criticizing Nigeria strengthen Kemi’s position as a Tory electoral asset? Approximately 270,768 Nigerians lived in England and Wales prior to 2024. There were 271,390 people who identified as Nigerian. This is only 0.5 percent of the population of the United Kingdom. What use will it serve Kemi to disparage Nigeria?
Why does she limit her campaign focus to Nigeria and continue to make fun of immigrants as though they are parasitic and unworthy, instead of focusing on a plan that puts her ahead of the Labour Party? The answer is straightforward: Kemi’s strategy is based on the current anti-immigrant movement that helped Donald Trump win office. She firmly believes that any candidate who can disparage immigrants will win over the white supremacist voting bloc, whose support is essential for winning office. Additionally, Kemi, who is shrewd by half, saw no problems with immigrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan, or India, despite the fact that roughly 52,000 Nigerians moved to the UK in 2024. She made the decision to hang her own heritage and people by the noose. Kemi is perfectly encapsulating Edwin Louis Cole’s statement that “the pattern of the prodigal is rebellion and ruin.” Even though he used the phrase “repentance and restoration” to close the quote, I don’t see Kemi doing that.
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She’s a hopeless cause, particularly since James Boswell’s statement that “if a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous” accurately underscores the myopia of willful bastards. Therefore, we should recognize that Kemi Badenoch’s willful fabrications and her obedient, submissive, attention-seeking disparagement of immigrants—many of whom have contributed to the development of the UK—are indicative of a condescending, virtue-signaling to fit into a psycho-genocidal fiction in which immigrants are viewed as annoyances and have the opposite value of a campaign troll, in preparation for an extinction policy. Unfortunately, Olukemi Olufunto is the name of this conservative wannabe-racist, regardless of how much she tries to break the ties to her origin. She is a Nigerian Yoruba who is the daughter of immigrants. She was born in England, returned to Nigeria, and appreciated the country’s warmth and communal culture before being sent back to the UK at the age of sixteen.
Therefore, despite Kemi’s best efforts, she will never be white, and the true British people are aware of this. She is free to pursue her goal of becoming an official, but it does not reflect well on her to undermine the dignity of other races. Ambition might motivate us to strive, but it shouldn’t be by putting a whole race on a slab for slaughter. This is the ideal beauty of virtue. Furthermore, Kemi shouldn’t use her kids as a political weapon in a crude and dishonest manner. And history will not be kind to her because of this. And she might not get that office. She might be on the verge of being mocked. However, in light of her most recent dishonest outburst, the Nigerian Federal Government ought to seek the right of reply to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in order to refute the most recent odor Kemi just let out like a fart. This will be well handled by Reno Omokri. It’s time to send him go!
Lastly, the person in charge of Kemi’s hair and general upkeep needs to perform better. Despite their best efforts, she appears to be many years older than she actually is.
