Yoruba-Born UK Tory Party Leader, Denies Connection To Nigeria As A Country, Affirms Natural Ethnic Affiliations Instead

Yoruba-Born UK Tory Party Leader, Denies Connection To Nigeria As A Country, Affirms Natural Ethnic Affiliations Instead  In what has become...

Yoruba-Born UK Tory Party Leader, Denies Connection To Nigeria As A Country, Affirms Natural Ethnic Affiliations Instead 

In what has become an episode of brawls and tantrums between the newly UK tory party leader, Mrs Kemi Badenoch and officials of the Nigerian government including the incumbent vice president, Kasheem Shettima. Mrs Badenoch has again openly reaffirmed her apathy and ill-interest to identify with the Nigerian state and even more tacitly, its national identity. 

Bearing in mind that Mrs Kemi Badenoch who has now risen to the exalted ranks of one most British influential political party, the right-wing Conservative party, was born to an immigrant family from Nigeria, ethnically from the Yorubas tribe. 

Her recent declaration of conscience recorded in an interview conducted with the British, Spectator media platform, where she was heard echoing the thoughts and talking points of the incarcerated leader of the Pro-Biafra, IPOB movement, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, arguing and pinpointing the irreconcilable ethnic, cultural, sociopolitical dichotomy existing between the north and south of the Nigeria entity and why it is an ethnic suicide for one to accept the 'Nigerian' identity over his or her natural and indigenous identity.

According to her, she - as an individual with ethnic ties to the Yoruba/ọduduwa tribe, has absolutely nothing in common with the north which fundamental is islamic in religion and value polity. Also citing the Boko Haram terrorism and violent extremism thereof in the north. 

"I find it interesting that everybody defines me as being Nigerian. I identify less with the country than with the specific ethnicity [Yoruba]. I have nothing in common with the people from the north of the country, the Boko Haram where Islamism is."

“Being Yoruba is my true identity, and I refuse to be lumped with northern people of Nigeria, who ‘were our ethnic enemies, ’ all in the name of being called a Nigerian."

Mrs  Badenoch came to the limelight immediately she assumed administrative post as the flagbearer of the UK conservative party, Sequel to her controversial opinion and argument against the demand for reparations and justice by  African countries, communities from the British crown and government over the atrocities of the transatlantic slave trade era and colonialism. 

Nevertheless, her vehement non-cooperative stance with the Nigerian government coupled with her recent declaration of conscience highlights the opaque, illusionary trait of the Nigerian identity especially in the eyes of rational minds, objectively evaluating without material inducement or self-interests of any sort. 

Mrs Badenoch admission to this reality from far away England, where common sense and reason prevails above sentiments, while the direct victims of the colonial mistake are yet to, goes to show and justify her reasons for her declared apathy in her capacity to the Nigerian state, even though the British government is indeed involved in the consistent business of reinforcing the binds holding the frail Nigerian unity. 

The likes of the IPOB movement and her incarcerated leader stood up to this herculean task with this unpopular opinion 12 years ago and till date are still being persecuted and incarcerated. Today, the chicken is home to roost, even from the four walls of the British House Of Common, albeit unofficially. The just has been vindicated.

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