Kemi Badenoch’s declaration that she no longer identifies as Nigerian has
gone down badly back home.
In Lagos newspaper This Day, columnist Olusegun Adeniyi called the Tory leader a liar for claiming in an interview that Nigerian law prevents her from passing citizenship to her children because she is a woman. He also questioned several of Badenoch’s stories about her childhood. Adeniyi added: “Every real and imagined experience of her formative years in Nigeria has become a campaign tool for Badenoch… the concern now is that there is no lie too outlandish for her to tell.”
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That was tame compared to a column by Femi Fani-Kayode in The Nation, Nigeria’s second-biggest paper, which again accused Badenoch of fibbing over citizenship and her schooldays. “This strange woman is indeed the proverbial liar from the pit of hell,” Fani-Kayode wrote. “She is the darkness that seeks the darkness: the serpent that is devoid of truth and that seeks to do nothing but spread its poisonous and deadly venom and to steal, kill and destroy.”
Still, there’s every chance that the deeply odd Badenoch will use “Vote
Kemi: the darkness that seeks the darkness” as a future campaign slogan.
