The Leader of the UK’s Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, has revealed the reason why she identifies less with Nigeria but more with her ethnic group, Yoruba.
The Leader of the UK Conservative Party, who was born Kemi Adegoke, made this known in an interview she granted The Spectator.
Badenoch said: “I find it interesting that everybody defines me as being Nigerian.
“I identify less with the country than with the specific ethnicity (Yoruba).
“I have nothing in common with the people from the north of the country, the Boko Haram, where Islamism is.
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“Being Yoruba is my true identity, and I refuse to be lumped up with northern people of Nigeria, who ‘were our ethnic enemies’, all in the name of being called a Nigerian.”
Reflecting on her Yoruba roots, Badenoch said: “Somebody once told me when I was very young that my surname (Adegoke) was a name for people who were warriors.
“They protected the crown, and that’s what I see myself as doing.”
One her commitment to the UK, she said: “I am here to protect and I will die protecting this country because I know what’s out there.”
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