{"id":57875,"date":"2024-12-12T09:51:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T09:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=57875"},"modified":"2024-12-12T09:51:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T09:51:48","slug":"kemi-badenoch-reaffirms-her-position-on-nigeria-amid-shettimas-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/12\/kemi-badenoch-reaffirms-her-position-on-nigeria-amid-shettimas-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Kemi Badenoch Reaffirms Her Position on Nigeria Amid Shettima\u2019s Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UK Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has reaffirmed her position on Nigeria despite facing criticism from Nigeria\u2019s Vice President, Kashim Shettima.<\/p>\n<p>Shettima accused Badenoch of disparaging Nigeria following her remarks about the country\u2019s political and social challenges.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Badenoch, who spent part of her childhood in Nigeria, has frequently spoken about her experiences growing up in an environment she described as fraught with fear and insecurity due to systemic corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on these experiences, she remarked, \u201cI grew up in Nigeria and saw firsthand what happens when politicians are in it for themselves\u2014when they use public money as their private piggy banks and pollute the political atmosphere with their failure to serve others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She has also criticized the effects of socialism and poverty in Nigeria, expressing that her move to Britain was motivated by the pursuit of opportunities where hard work and meritocracy could lead to success.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Vice President Shettima took issue with Badenoch\u2019s narrative, contrasting her stance with that of former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who has refrained from publicly criticizing his ancestral homeland, India.<\/p>\n<p>Shettima suggested that Badenoch reconsider her identity if she feels disconnected from Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about Shettima\u2019s criticism, a spokesperson for Badenoch reiterated her commitment to standing by her statements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKemi Badenoch values honesty and transparency in discussing issues related to her homeland and will not engage in public relations efforts to portray Nigeria differently from her lived experiences,\u201d the spokesperson stated.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange has sparked conversations about diaspora perspectives on their countries of origin, with Badenoch\u2019s comments continuing to draw both support and criticism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal UK Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has reaffirmed her position on Nigeria despite facing criticism from Nigeria\u2019s Vice President, Kashim Shettima. Shettima accused Badenoch of disparaging Nigeria following her remarks about the country\u2019s political and social challenges. &nbsp; Badenoch, who spent part of her childhood in Nigeria, has frequently spoken about her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":57876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57877,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57875\/revisions\/57877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}