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The truth is even if the Englanders proclaimed Kemi Badenoch as their Queen yours truly will continue to loathe her because she has contempt for my country. Two hundred and fifty million people live in Nigeria and she is not the dark, evil, beast-infested forest and wild jungle that Badenoch portrays her to be. She is not filled with ignorant, grass skirt-wearing, ape-looking, monkey-sounding, primitive barbarians and heinous cannibals that she would have others believe.
We are not a land of sub-human creatures that have no decency, no decorum, no knowledge, no heritage and no history. We are not uncivilised, we do not live in trees, we do not behave like animals and neither are we godless, unruly, ignorant or incompetent. Just like any other country, including the UK itself, we are not infallible and we have our own fair share of flaws and challenges. Yet that does not diminish us and I am not constrained to feel any sense of elation when a person that has displayed such disdain for our people achieves anything simply because that person has her roots in my country or in my ethnic nationality. The fact that Kemi is of Yoruba descent does not absolve her of her rancid bigotry and does not constrain me to give her a free pass.
To those from Yorubaland who say we must celebrate her despite her foibles because she is Yoruba I ask the following: must we support a Yoruba who hates her ancestry, heritage, values and culture and who sees and says nothing good in our history? Must we endorse the acts and words of an individual who has denied us before the world, who has nothing good to say about us and who has insulted and denigrated our forefathers?
Surely doing so would be the height of clannish and cultic behaviour and an inglorious display of a crude and primitive disposition. We are far bigger and better than that. Even if she was a mass murderer those that think like that would still hail her because she is Yoruba. This surely is not our way and neither does it bring honor to our name. We must judge her on what she says and does and not on the basis of her tribe, gender, nationality, religious faith or the color of her skin. Outside of that it says a lot about the values of the British Conservative Party when a vainglorious, dangerously ambitious, self-deprecating, Uncle Tom and Aunty Jemima-like figure could be elected as their leader.
This is a far cry from the Conservative Party of Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher. I have little doubt that they both turned in their graves upon hearing about Badenoch’s ascension in the firm knowledge that their party had been handed a poisoned chalice.
Those misguided Nigerians that celebrate her simply because she is from our shores are hugging a snake that hates them with passion. Eventually she will turn around and bite them and they will curse the day that she was born. The truth is that I fear for the plight of the Nigerian community in the UK in the unlikely event of her ever being elected Prime Minister. Permit me to end this contribution with the following.
In Kemi’s most graphic display of ignorance, mendacity, religious bigotry, tribalism and racism she said that she does not believe that Northern Nigerian Muslims should be allowed into the UK because they are, in her view, “Islamists”. She went on to say that Northern Muslims support terror and that an example of this are the ugly events in Chibok, Northern Nigeria ten years ago when over two hundred schoolgirls were kidnapped!
•Chief Fani-Kayode, the Sadaukin Shinkafi, is a former Minister of Aviation and former Minister of Culture and Tourism of Nigeria.
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