Comments on: The Problem with Kemi Badenoch

By: Zami

Zami — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 05:10:53 +0000

In reply to The Whole Truth. To hell with Nigeria indeed!

By: Zami

Zami — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 05:07:15 +0000

In reply to B. Abdullahi. She is not denying her heritage. She sees herself as Yoruba and not Nigerian. Please, get that right! Who is even a Nigerian?

By: okwute

okwute — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 04:28:20 +0000

In reply to ademolaadebayo. Adeniyi and his colleagues put up with the rot and defend the structure that not only allows corrupt and mediocre leaders to emerge, but also makes it possible for them to thrive. Summoning the effrontery to attack Kemi is ignoring the huge log in our own eyes while making a mounting out of the speck in others'. Our compromised press is complicit in our political leadership woes.

By: ademolaadebayo

ademolaadebayo — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 10:46:08 +0000

Personally , I wouldn't criticise Kemi. My criticism is to the corrupt and incompetent Nigerian government. Nigeria has one of the most abundantly human and natural resources in the world, but what has the country got to show for it? The last time I checked, Nigeria has the lowest life expectancy in the world, the highest number of people living in poverty in the world, one of worst education systems in the world and the worst electoral process in the world. I can predict the result of the next election. It is Tinubu winning by a landslide. The usual corrupt judges will rubber stamp it and Nigeria would continue to be bled of her resources. Be honest, what has Nigeria got apart from corrupt leaders where the citizens are treated with contempt? Before anyone starts attacking me, what process exists to bring murderers to justice? A classic example is Funso Williams, whose murderers are still enjoying their freedom. How about Dele Farotimi, who was detained for several months for calling out corrupt politicians? How about Mr Sowore who is currently being detained? Nigeria is a failed country that is incapable of doing anything of worth, and will remain so with the useless leaders she has

By: concerned citizen

concerned citizen — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 17:03:47 +0000

The sad truth is that Nigerians in general will say anything to avoid glaring truth, what is our business with someone who has her political career on track in another country. All we know is weak minded politics and propaganda and it shows in the way the masses are living and being treated. Talking about her lack of identity and complex are you her therapist is Nigeria funding her campaign. we are here many years after she left and what had changed, please let's not act delusional because of a few bitter truths God bless Nigeria

By: Mystic mallam

Mystic mallam — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 09:06:31 +0000

Mr. Adeniyi has done a thorough bring-down job on Ms. Badenoch. Just like Abati and Dabiri had done before him, Segun rightly hammered on her personal identity crisis, her desperate search for enough self-confidence to scale up her relevance and whites' acceptance of her improbable ambition to be UK PM. Strikingly, not once did anyone of them – Reuben Abati, Abike Dabiri, or Segun Adeniyi, attempt to link Ms. kemi's betrayal of her ancestry in search for acceptance as characteristic of the entire Yoruba ethnic group – which is appropriate. However, one has to wonder, and rightly too, if they would have been as reasonable if Ms. Kemi Badenoch was Kema Badenoch [as in Kema Chikwe]. She surely would have been labelled IPOB and representative of Igbo separatism. Be that as it may, Segun is absolutely right to advise Ms. Kemi that irrespective of whatever we may choose to call ourselves, we don't really fool anyone, people know who we truly are – a piece of advice that the Mr. Wikes of Nigeria should also take to heart – that instead of pursuing acceptance and love from unlikely quarters, they should concentrate on seeking respect. And, finally, we need to agree on something else – Kemi Badenoch's identity crisis is her problem, we ought to leave it to her to resolve for herself or sink with it – why are we so concerned that we are making it our [ Nigeria's] problem. Besides which, Nigeria has its myriad of problems to sort out, Kemi's vituperations should be the least of them – but if we wish to make it major, it raises another issue of our own failure – why doesn't Nigeria have an Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Representative in the Court of St. James' to challenge and countermand Ms. Kemi's and her fellow travelers' self-serving lies and jaundiced views to put Nigeria down and in disrepute? Isn't that what plenipotentiary envoys do? Surprise, surprise – an administration that serially awards $$bns for SUVs and elephant projects, cannot afford to appoint Ambassadors.

By: Interessant

Interessant — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 09:06:13 +0000

As soon as Badenoch entered the offices of her party she was stunned to silence. This is what I have been given to manage? A British institution? Now tell me which Nigerian who merely travelled to UK has not denied Nigeria. Most of them only use Nigeria when it is convenient.

By: EME CASA

EME CASA — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 08:46:07 +0000

One has to feel very sorry for Kemi Badenoch. She has to completely run away from who she is in the hope that she would be accepted by the very people who will never accept her. The tragedy is that she is much brighter and accomplished than most of the people whose acceptance she craves. The Conservative Party, which she currently leads as the opposition leader, has such a poor leadership pool, that she is even the brightest leader they have had in a very long time. The Conservative Party is the party of recent British Leaders such as Boris Johnson (a total wreckage of a human being) and Liz Truss (who has the intelligence of a 5 year old). This is the Party that Kemi Badenoch leads, and she is the most accomplished leader that party has produced in a while. It is the tragedy of the UK society that Kemi Badenoch has to demonstrate hatred of herself and her background to be accepted. She looks internally tortured and angry and frustrated. Not a good place for human being to be in.

By: The Whole Truth

The Whole Truth — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 06:11:59 +0000

Even before Badenoch, there was this other Yoruba imbecile who, again in order to use "their" people as ladder to acceptance in the UK, told the BBC that Nigerians use study only as means to relocation to the UK. The f00l was eventually deported. As you said, no less a fate also awaits Badenoch. To the best of my understanding, the super clever & crafty Europeans merely want to use her & David Lammy to hide the fact that the conservative party lost the general elections because of Sunak. The British people are dissatisfied with the labour party but the conservative party is still not an option. Reform UK is on the surge.

Unfortunately Badenochism is typical Yoruba modus operandi. They don't rise without using the means of betrayal, divisiveness & pull down of others. Seeing that Zik was leading him in the western house of assembly, Awolowo resorted to rallying the Ronu base with tribalistic cry. In 2023 Tinubu employed SWAGA (South Western Agenda). When hunger protests broke out in last year he imported it into Abuja, using Abuja indigens to ask those who want to protest to "go back to their states".

Currently Yorubas are instigating South Africans & Ghanaians against Igbos. At home they are rebelling against & opposing the idea of equal citizenship. They are opposing the idea of state of birth in place of state of origin. As you said, people go to other countries not only to acquire citizenship. They also, like Badenoch, aspire for offices. But here, they don't want any of these. In their places you cannot even exercise the right to vote anymore.

So, there are WORSE Badenochs in Nigeria than in the UK! And you should first address the greater Badenochism here than the Badenoch in the UK. I hate your "we" & "our".

To hell with Nigeria!

By: Fel

Fel — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 05:45:20 +0000

Mr Adeniyi, as people feel proud to go and have their children in “civilised” countries, that person when they grow up, will be deployed by that new country to help them fight their battle. One thing about Nigerians and very much blacks in general is that we confirm the argument made by Frantz Fanon decades ago that black people cannot do without whites. It is too late to change that.

By: obinnna77

obinnna77 — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 03:24:35 +0000

In reply to okwute. Well said.

By: B. Abdullahi

B. Abdullahi — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 02:16:22 +0000

The Yorubas have an adage that only a bastard points at his father's house with the left hand.

By: B. Abdullahi

B. Abdullahi — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 02:14:50 +0000

In reply to Omooba. What a nice name- caricature

By: Omooba

Omooba — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 01:50:45 +0000

I beg Sege, let's forget caricature Kemi for now. She'll soon be neither here nor there when the mask on her face is removed.
Like in the Wasiu's case, our ancestral god is at work invoking "edi" to effect.

By: okwute

okwute — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 22:09:40 +0000

Badenoch misfired on Nigerian citizenship for her children, but she was spot on on many other issues she raised about us. Nigerians attacking her for being protective of her adopted country is hypocritical because we did the same thing and more to our Ghanaian and other ECOWAS brethren in the 1980s. That was when those we called illegal aliens were doing nothing but menial jobs that we refused to do. We had no generous welfare system that they exploited like we do in Britain. They did not come from potentially rich nations that chose to remain poor due to inept and corrupt governments. That's us.

Granted, Britain criminally invaded, colonized and exploited us, and that is inexcusable. It is also hypocritical of her to now complain because we are flocking there without permission. That is a story for another day, though. The issue right now is that Nigeria should not be in this beggarly position that gives every functional nation the right to treat Nigerians like dirt. But for our lousy and corrupt political leaders, traffic should be towards Nigeria for opportunities. Even Ghana is reading the rot act to Nigerians there! We deserve every bit of the insults because we put ourselves in that vulnerable position.

I would rather that Mr. Adeniyi and his colleagues aimed their outrage at the criminals who call themselves political leaders, past and present that put us in this mess. The Tori leader is not a saint, but I would chose her to lead us, given the choice, over the criminal in office right now and over 90% of those before him in both Dodan Barracks and Aso Rock. That is how horrible it is and has been with Nigeria and for Nigerians..