The Chairman/CEO of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) Abike Dabiri-Erewa, says Nigeria will not force the newly elected leader of UK’s Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, to identify with her Nigerian roots.
Dabiri-Erewa, whose office oversees activities of Nigerians in diaspora, disclosed that her office has reached out to Badenoch a few times and got no response.
Dabiri-Erewa, whose office oversees activities of Nigerians in diaspora, disclosed that her office has reached out to Badenoch a few times and got no response.
“It depends on if she identifies the Nigerianess in her. We have reached out to her once or twice without any response, so we don’t force people to accept to be Nigerian,” Dabiri-Erewa said on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief programme on Wednesday when asked if the government has identified with Badenoch.
“If you appreciate the Nigerianess in you and you want to work with us, we are open to everybody, but we cannot force you to appreciate the Nigerianess in you. You remember the Miss Universe Nigeria in South Africa.
“Until she got into a little problem with South Africa she identified with Nigeria, and she identified with Nigeria, came to Nigeria and we hosted her. As long as that blood is in you, you are a Nigerian.
“So, it depends on Kemi to decide whether appreciates the Nigerianess in her, whether she wants to work with Nigeria, but we cannot force anybody.”
The Conservatives on Saturday elected Badenoch as its new leader, replacing Rishi Sunak, who quit after the party’s disastrous showing in the July general election.
“Until she got into a little problem with South Africa she identified with Nigeria, and she identified with Nigeria, came to Nigeria and we hosted her. As long as that blood is in you, you are a Nigerian.
“So, it depends on Kemi to decide whether appreciates the Nigerianess in her, whether she wants to work with Nigeria, but we cannot force anybody.”
The Conservatives on Saturday elected Badenoch as its new leader, replacing Rishi Sunak, who quit after the party’s disastrous showing in the July general election.
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Dabiri- Erewa,
ReplyDeleteSo you're praying for Kemi to get into trouble so she will identify with you and Nigerians? Madam why not concentrate on your job descriptions. Why are you contacting her? If she was on the news for the wrong reason, would you have asked her to identify her Nigerianess.
You guys only want to associate with successful people but don't wanna follow their process when they're yet to make it.
Pls leave that woman alone. Currently, no one should be proud of the Nigeria you're calling someone to identify her heritage with. If Nigeria was a working country, people will gladly do so without being told. If she hadn't won that seat, would you have reached out to her? Pls don't infect her with the Nigerian mentality and corruption system.
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DeleteDon't mind her. They want to identify with her success
Well said. She should go & help Karen Igho who’s battling d custody of her kids. Na when e don done , ona go show.
DeleteVery well said, the way Dabiri- Erewa spoke can be triggering.
DeleteEveryone wants to associate with success but do not want to take the process of getting there.
Please do not stain Kemi's white, YES she has Nigerian blood and because she snobs this association, does not mean she snobs Nigerians.
Okay so you want a British born Nigerian to join an association of Nigerians who moved to the UK - isnt this the wrong association for her?
Is she not supposed to be approached by the UK black British association?
Please Karen and Co need your help, focus on the right people and not just successful people..
No of my business but this Kemi too do. Make she nur Kast cos I my know Naija people dey go troll her dye. Good luck to whatever she represent na she sabi.
ReplyDeleteIf your prayer is for her to Kast may God never allow that day to come.
DeleteMay she continue to soar and excel in all she does.
She haven't done any wrong by achieving good things for herself all of a sudden you want her to fall so you and your family will gloat over her. GOD FORBID
Jealousy jeloma @ Baba Chucky
DeleteTorr,when she was a nobody did they reach out to her?Who is even pushing for her to identify with Nigeria?Have you identified all the people going through issues in the abroad?Have you reached out to this ex BB naija lady that has been begging Nigerians to come to her aid?So many Nigerians in the diaspora that needs your attention,please leave Kemi alone.
ReplyDeleteIt’s good she snubbed the useless crooks in government.
ReplyDeleteIt is not by force..
ReplyDeleteThey should let her be..
Reach out to her for what if she is denying her heritage then you people should leave her alone.
ReplyDeleteOh! Una talk am ooo, Anty identify with Nigerian nah but we are not even begging sef 😗😗
ReplyDeleteDon't mind them with their eye service. Have you contacted the Nigerians there that have problems and need help?
ReplyDeleteThank you Anon.
DeleteHave you contacted the Nigerians there that reached out for help?
She never hid her disdain for my beloved country. 😔😔😔
ReplyDeleteHahaha, success has plenty children, una contact her before she became the party leader?
ReplyDeleteGo and identify with other Nigerians that are stuck in foreign prisons madam
ReplyDeleteSomeone that has never acknowledged you, you want to form relationship.
ReplyDeleteThe best time to befriend a king is before he gets crowned
I love your comment 👌
DeleteWords on Diamond....Very apt
DeleteThis woman self ....
ReplyDeleteHello iya Boys
Abike want to claim relationship with success. Where were you before now. Yeye dey smell
ReplyDeleteShe no want. Haba mana.
ReplyDeleteThe job of the Diaspora commission is not only to release people from detention in other countries. They also celebrate successful Nigerians in diaspora so that the other countries can see that we are not just a nation of drug carriers or criminals.
ReplyDeleteKemi Badenoch has been elected the leader of opposition so it's obvious there is nothing she can offer Nigeria or the commission, at least right now. She has snubbed them and its okay, it's within her right to do that.
Is it not curious that our default position on any issue is to condemn our country and take sides against it, yet we claim we want the country to progress.
What yeye celebration of successful Nigerians abroad? Have they finished celebrating the ones within Nigeria? Abike has no business with Kemi. She should do her job.
DeleteIt is called Diaspora commission for a reason; Diaspora are Nigerians living outside the country. One agency certainly does not represent the entirety of government
DeleteMake una leave Kemi oooo...she is a politician and must have given up her Nigerian passport to get to where she is...for certain UK govt jobs you must give up your citizen of origin, I am there so I know ..una face una country!!!
ReplyDeleteShe was born and bred in the UK! Nothing concern her and Nigeria! Moreover the Conservative Party is toast! after the white people destroyed the party, they handed leadership to Kemi! May God help her! The UK is a no destination for me right now, because is worse than a 3rd world country! Any country that I resided in and left! I don't bother going back; except it is for business! There is a reason, why I left in the first place.
ReplyDeletePls tell me because I wan go there
Delete@Anon 11:44, so really UK is a third world country now...oh my...because they have so much muslims...are muslims not humans...mmmh.. UK third world country?? You have been fooled pls do not go back to the UK oooo stay where you are, when you destroy that Country...go to another!
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