Vice President Kashim Shettima has told the newly elected UK Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch, that she can remove Kemi from her name but Nigeria will still remain the greatest black nation on earth.
VP Shettima said this against the backdrop of the denigrating comments of Badenoch about and for snubbing Nigeria after her election.
The Eagle Online recalls that after her election, the Chairman/CEO of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said she reached out to her a couple of times, but there was no response.
In 2012, Badenoch, a member of the UK parliament and Prime Minister hopeful, accused Nigerian politicians of using public funds to fund their personal issues.
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But speaking on Monday at the 10th Annual Migration Dialogue at the State House in Abuja, Vice President Shettima said: “Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the British Labour or Conservative Party, we are proud of her in spite of her efforts at denigrating her nation of origin.
“She is entitled to her own opinions.
“She has even every right to remove the Kemi from her name, but that does not underscore the fact that the greatest black nation on earth is the nation called Nigeria.
“One out of every three, four black men is a Nigerian and by 2050, Nigeria will be the third most populous nation on earth.”
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