The Presidency has stated that the recent remarks made by UK Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch, will have no impact on Nigeria.
In her latest criticism about the country, Badenoch
expressed concerns about the potential impact of ineffective governance in the
United Kingdom, drawing a comparison to Nigeria.
Speaking on the need to build trust and position the Conservative Party as a solution to Britain’s challenges, Badenoch warned of the risks of Britain’s system faltering and likened it to governance issues in Nigeria.
She drew the analogy during her first speech of the year at
an event organised by Onward, a British think-tank.
Reacting to her statements, the Special Adviser to the
President on Policy Communications, Daniel Bwala, during an interview on
Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Monday, dismissed their
relevance to Nigeria’s international relations or efforts to attract investors.
He said, “I don’t think it would have an effect because
she’s not the government in power.
“Usually, these international relationships or
collaborations are dealings between governments. Because she’s not the government
in power, it will not have any effect.
“Secondly, because she’s a Nigerian, investors will be smart
enough to access what she’s saying, whether it is born out of rhetoric.”
Speaking earlier in the interview, Bwala acknowledged
Badenoch’s achievements in the UK, but argued that she is capitalising on
populism that thrives on public discontent.
“The only problem we have with Kemi, I think, is the
rhetoric because Kemi belongs to the right base in the United Kingdom, which is
what you see in this populism around the world; that you can deepen on your
support system if you can feed off of the anger of the people,” Bwala said.
“And so she’s building a rhetoric of denigrating Nigeria,
demarketing in Nigeria, so she can probably win the acceptance or acceptation
of the rights in her party. And that to me is counterproductive because if you
look at Rishi Sunak, he is also of Indian origin.
“There has been this issue of gang rape in India. He has
never used that as a weapon to promote what he believed to be a departure from
what is likely to be believed as hereditary or history of the Indian people,
but she has always denigrated Nigeria.”
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