Kemi Badenoch has stood by her feedback about Nigeria after the nation’s vice chairman criticised her remarks.
Ms Badenoch was born within the London suburb of Wimbledon, and raised in Nigeria, earlier than returning to the UK on the age of 16.
She has spoken usually about her life and childhood in Nigeria – particularly in the course of the Tory management race.
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However now one senior Nigerian politician has taken difficulty along with her feedback.
Vp Kashim Shettima accused the Conservative chief of disparaging the nation.
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Nigeria’s vice chairman Kashim Shettima. File pic: Reuters
Mr Shettima added: “She is entitled to her own opinions, she has every right to remove the Kemi from her name.”
Requested in regards to the feedback, a spokesperson for Ms Badenoch stated she “stands by what she says” and “is not the PR for Nigeria”.
They added: “She is the chief of the opposition and she or he could be very pleased with her management of the opposition on this nation.
“She tells the truth. She tells it like it is. She is not going to couch her words.”
It isn’t clear which statements the Nigerian politician was responding to.
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Ms Badenoch has beforehand described rising up in Nigeria and seeing a authorities beset by corruption and dysfunction.
On one event, she stated that rising up in Nigeria she has “seen what happens when politicians are in it for themselves… using public money as their private piggy banks”.
The most recent feedback had been made by the Nigerian vice chairman in a speech about immigration that additionally in contrast her to former prime minister Rishi Sunak – who Mr Shettima stated was “a brilliant young man”.
