Reno Omokri wrote: “Boris Johnson is of Turkish descent and is not popular in his original fatherland, Turkey. Despite their opprobrium, he never denigrated Turkey before, during, or after his tenure as Prime Minister. Rishi Sunak is originally from India and never had an unkind word to say about India while he was Prime Minister.
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| Kemi Badenoch. Photo: @KemiBadenoch |
“With such illustrious predecessors, why would Kemi not learn to act and talk?
And what she said about Nigeria was a lie. Kemi grew up as the child of a lecturer at the University of Lagos. Akoka, where she lived, was a very safe neighbourhood. Her tales of growing up with fear everywhere and every time are not hyperbolic. They are outright lies.
Kemi ought to be careful about schmoozing up to the British establishment. She is dispensable. Very dispensable. I will also use real-life experience to buttress my assertions.
All my life, I have always thought that the athlete Linford Christie was British and British only. Throughout his long and successful career of winning medals at the Olympics, World Athletics Championships, and the Commonwealth Games, the headlines only ever described him as British. He was named British Sports Personality of the Year by the BBC in 1993, for goodness’ sake!
It was only when, at the end of his career, the International Association of Athletics Federations suspended him for doping that the British media changed his identity from British athlete to ‘Jamaican Born British Athlete Suspended By IAAF For Doping’.
It will not be challenging for her Conservative Party rivals to send investigators to Nigeria to establish the veracity of her claims. And when they find out that she lied about them, we could see British headlines such as ‘British Politician of Nigerian Descent Forced Out After Her Lies Were Exposed’.
And why should we even bother about what a British politician thinks about us? Our economy is growing much faster than the British economy. Last quarter, our GDP grew by 3.46% compared to 0.1% (I am not joking. Fact fact-check me) for the UK in the same period.
According to Goldman Sachs and PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Nigeria’s economy will be bigger than the UK’s by 2050 (PWC) and before 2075 (Goldman Sachs). So, who should be worried about who? “
Boris Johnson is of Turkish descent and is not popular in his original fatherland, Turkey. Despite their opprobrium, he never denigrated Turkey before, during, or after his tenure as Prime Minister. Rishi Sunak is originally from India and never had an unkind word to say about… pic.twitter.com/77rjRJTpyQ
— Reno Omokri (@renoomokri) December 13, 2024
