Kemi Badenoch has been criticised for “using every single opportunity she gets to throw Nigeria under the bus”. The Tory MP, who is up against fellow MP Robert Jenrick in the final round of the Tory Party leadership contest, was called out by British-Nigerian lawyer, activist and academic Shola Mos-Shogbamimu in a Make It Plain podcast hosted by fellow academic Kehinde Andrews.
Kemi Badenoch, nee Adegoke, was born in London to Nigerian parents. We reported previously how she lied that Nigeria was a “socialist” country.
Mos-Shogbamimu slammed her for using her experience of life in Nigeria to curry favour from white Britain by suggesting gratitude for being in the country. The activist contrasted this with Badenoch’s fellow Tory MPs such as former prime minister Rishi Sunak, and previous home secretaries Priti Patel and Suella Braverman. All three are of Indian descent and Mos-Shogbamimu claimed you’d never see them knocking India.
Mos-Shogbamimu is a regular on discussion programmes on British television with 198,000 followers on Twitter. She didn’t hold back against Badenoch, calling her a “gatekeeper of the system that needs to go, the blackface of white supremacy and a racial gatekeeper”. And that was just the beginning. She added that Badenoch aka Bad Enough “does everything to uphold the very system that suppresses and oppresses black people” and “only speaks for white supremacy”.
She defined a “racial gatekeeper” as someone that “literally gatekeeps and legitimises the dehumanisation and ongoing systemic oppression of their own race”.
When host Andrews said that Badenoch, according to someone that knows her, “doesn’t understand why black people don’t like her”, Mos-Shogbamimu explained it was because she “defends the indefensible, doesn’t stand up for the truth as it affects black people”. She went on to describe how everything Badenoch does is about self-promotion.
With such “endearing qualities”, host Andrews said his money was on Badenoch being the next prime minister of the UK. If she makes it, it won’t be with the backing of black voters or the votes of British-Nigerians like Shola Mos-Shogbamimu.
