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Presidency dismisses Kemi Badenoch’s story about Nigeria

Presidency dismisses Kemi Badenoch’s story about Nigeria

The Presidency on Monday condemned the statements against Nigeria made by the newly elected United Kingdom Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch, as a “cock and bull story.”

Temitope Ajayi, President Bola Tinubu’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, said that Badenoch lied about her background in Nigeria.

She said that her upbringing in Nigeria was marred by fear and insecurity since the country was riddled with corruption.

Following her election as UK Conservative Party leader in November 2024, the Nigerian government, through the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), allegedly attempted to contact Badenoch, but she rejected.

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“Instead of answering the question with how you would make the police more efficient and accountable in protecting the people of the UK, you resorted to an inane cock and bull story of how policemen stole your brother’s shoe in Nigeria.

“For someone who has obviously lied about everything she said about her upbringing in Nigeria just for the feel-good effect of keeping her new job, how can we be sure her brother’s so-called police experience in Nigeria was not another made-up story?

“Her story of carrying a desk and chair to sit in class at ISL didn’t add up. Her claim that she had no clean water to drink was complete baloney for a girl who grew up in an upper-middle-class family—her mother a university professor and her father a successful medical doctor who ran a well-known private hospital with a rich clientele.”

Presidency dismisses Kemi Badenoch’s story about Nigeria

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