I Have Nothing In Common With Northern Nigeria, I’m Yoruba – Kemi Badenoch

Nigeria’s vice president, Kashim Shettima, has come under fire from UK Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch, who claims she has no connection to the northern part of the country.

Shettima started the conversation with Badenoch after the latter criticized her for “denigrating” Nigeria. In response, Badenoch made it clear through her spokeswoman that she still stands by her criticism of the nation’s dishonest politicians.

Badenoch said to The Spectator that she is Yoruba and identifies more with the ethnicity than with Nigeria, in yet another insult directed at Shettima.

She claims that she has nothing in common with the region of the country notorious for Islamism and the Boko Haram insurgency 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,” she stated.

“Somebody once told me when I was very young that my surname was a name for people who were warriors. They protected the crown, and that’s what I see myself as doing.

“I am here to protect, and I will die protecting this country because I know what’s out there,” Badenoch added.

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