Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative Party leader in the United Kingdom has stated that she identifies more with her Yoruba heritage than with Nigeria.
TheNewsGuru.com(TNG) reports that Badenoch, during a recent interview with ‘The Spectator’, said that she feels no connection to northern Nigeria, which she described as a haven for Islamism and Boko Haram as she assert her true identity lies in her Yoruba heritage.
She said, “I find it interesting that everybody defines me as being Nigerian. I identify less with the country than with the specific ethnicity (Yoruba).
“I have nothing in common with the people from the north of the country, the Boko Haram where Islamism is.
“Somebody once told me when I was very young that my surname was a name for people who were warriors. They protected the crown, and that’s what I see myself as doing.
“I am here to protect and I will die protecting this country because I know what’s out there.”