- Safiu Kehinde
Opposition Leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, has fired back at Nigerian Vice President, Kashim Shettima, over his claim of her denigration of Nigeria.
Badenoch, in a statement by her spokesperson during an address to newsmen on Wednesday, held that she stood by her words about Nigeria and cannot be forced to do PR for the country.
“She is the leader of the opposition and she is very proud of her leadership of the opposition in this country.
“She tells the truth. She tells it like it is. She is not going to couch her words.” Her spokesperson said.
Shettima had Monday accused Badenoch of denigrating Nigerian while speaking on migration in Abuja.
He, however, stated that his administration remains “proud” of Badenoch, despite what he described as her “attempts to denigrate her country of origin.”
Shettima compared her stance to that of Rishi Sunak, the UK’s first prime minister of Indian descent, who Shettima described as “a brilliant young man” who “never denigrated his nation of ancestry.”