The former Minister of Aviation Femi Fani-Kayode in a lengthy post has slamed Kemi Badenoch, the newly elected leader of the British Conservative Party, describing her with despicable names over some of her utterances during interviews. Fani-Kayode opined that Badenoch ‘deserved to be tarred’ for her obvious hatred, anger at her country of birth and had begun his statement with: “The Right Honorable Kemi Badenoch MP, former Minister of Women and Equalities of the United Kingdom and the newly-elected leader of the British Conservative party deserves to be tarred and feathered for the sort of things she says about Nigeria. “Apart from her insulting categorisations about Northern Nigerian Muslims, which I shall come to later in this contribution, this woman had the impudence to describe Nigeria, her country of origin, as a “living hell”, a place where she had to “walk one mile to get running water” and a country where “lizards run out of the taps!” “She constantly launches heavy salvos against the Nigerian people and our ruling elites including politicians, legislators, and members of the Judiciary and those that are in the private sector calling us thieves and labelling us as being corrupt and inept. “She snubbed the Federal Government on two occasions by ignoring them when they attempted to reach out to her through Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Eweka, President Bola Tinubu’s Special Advisor on the Diaspora, which provoked the latter to say that she was yet “to find the Nigerianess in her”. “As far as Kemi Badenoch is concerned Nigeria is a land of demons whilst the UK is a nation of angels. “She forgets that the country that she lives in has a long history of corruption, looting and barbarism and that London remains the world’s capital for money laundering. “Again, unlike the UK, Nigeria is not supporting the holocaust in Gaza and is not complicit in the genocide that has been unleashed on the Palestinians. “Sadly some of our people have not only applauded her for her offensive sentiments but have also become her loudest cheerleaders. “I suspect that those that do this may well be suffering from a disease known as “Stockholm syndrome”. “This affliction causes its victims to fall in love with their oppressors. “It compels them to cultivate an affection for those who seek to place them in servitude and who treat them with contempt. “The victims of this malaise are masochists whilst Badenoch herself is the female version of Marquis De Sade, the world’s most notorious sadist. “No matter how much she pisses on the graves of our heroes past and defecates on our flag they continue to worship her. “We may have issues as a nation but we must never support those that denigrate our country for political gain. “Kemi sold her soul to the right wing of the British Tory party and sought to put to shame the land of her forefathers just to become their leader. Nothing can be more despicable than that. “Loving those that hate you and consider you to not only be their inferior but also sub-human, in my view, is not a virtue but a vice. “The demonisation of our country should not be a pre-requisite to winning a leadership contest of a political party in a foreign land and if it is one cannot expect any self-respecting Nigerian to applaud it. “Her victory in the contest for the leadership of the UK’s Conservative party does not in any way ameliorate my disgust and repugnance for her or the foul stench that trails her wherever she goes. “She reminds me of the creature that the black American leader, Malcom X, described as “a house n*gger”. “Kemi is a vile, cunning, dangerous and willing tool of the colonialists, neo-colonialists and imperialists and she is everything that any patriotic Nigerian and every Pan Africanist should despise. “Unless and until she purges herself of her contempt I shall continue to regard her in the same light as William Shakespeare’s character Brutus whose treachery and betrayal was heartreanching and whose cut was “the deepest of all”. “Anyone that calls my country “hell on earth” is fair game and this is especially if that person does so in order to curry favour with members of her political party and win their support. “Such a person is nothing but a specious liar, an unconcioble opportunist, a bigoted racist and a cheap political hustler who will do or say anything, including selling her own people down the river, for political power. “Institutional racism is real in the UK and the worst type of racist is a self-hating black African who feels the need to rubbish his heritage, who believes that he must disparage the land of his forefathers and who consistently reinforces the negative stereotyping of Africa and Africans in order to be accepted into the highest echelons of the British political class. “The Bible asks, “what profiteth a man to lose his soul in order to gain the world”. I ask, what profiteth a woman to lose her dignity and self-respect in return for the leadership of a political party in a distant land. “This is made worse by the fact that it is a political party whose star has dimmed, whose days of glory are over and which may not be back in power for the next ten years! “The truth is even if the Englanders proclaimed Kemi Badenoch as their Queen yours truly will continue to loathe her because she has contempt for my country. “250 million people live in Nigeria and she is not the dark, evil, beast-infested forest and wild jungle that Badenoch portrays her to be. “She is not filled with ignorant, grass skirt-wearing, ape-looking, monkey-sounding, primitive barbarians and heinous cannibals that she would have others believe. “We are not a land of sub-human creatures that have no decency, no decorum, no knowledge, no heritage and no history. “We are not uncivilised, we do not live in trees, we do not behave like animals and neither are we godless, unruly, ignorant or incompetent. “Just like any other country, including the UK itself, we are not infallible and we have our own fair share of flaws and challenges. “Yet that does not diminish us and I am not constrained to feel any sense of elation when a person that has displayed such disdain for our people achieves anything simply because that person has her roots in my country or in my ethnic nationality. “The fact that Kemi is of Yoruba descent does not absolve her of her rancid bigotry and does not constrain me to give her a free pass. “To those from Yorubaland who say we must celebrate her despite her foibles because she is Yoruba I ask the following: must we support a Yoruba who hates her ancestry, heritage, values and culture and who sees and says nothing good in our history? “Must we endorse the acts and words of an individual who has denied us before the world, who has nothing good to say about us and who has insulted and denigrated our forefathers? “Surely doing so would be the height of clannish and cultic behaviour and an inglorious display of a crude and primitive disposition. “We are far bigger and better than that.”
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