Reno Omokri has reacted to Kemi Badenoch’s comment in her interview on CNN, that, “her children cannot get Nigerian citizenship because she is a woman”.
Omokri described the Conservative Party Leader’s comment as a “lie”, adding, that is “bad enough”.
He made a comparison of the situation of singer, Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel, popularly known as Seal, with the children of the UK opposition Leader, saying, “that they are not Nigerian citizens is purely a result of their mother’s choice, rather than Nigeria’s laws”.
In his reaction, Reno Omokri said: “This is Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel, popularly known as Seal. He is a multiple Grammy Award winner, born in London to a Brazilian father and a Nigerian mother. And guess what? He is British Nigerian, and lived briefly in Nigeria in the seventies as a Nigerian citizen.
“Other than that Kemi Badenoch’s children are mixed race, they are in exactly the same situation as Seal. That they are not Nigerian citizens is purely a result of their mother’s choice, rather than Nigeria’s laws.
“The fact that Kemi Bad-enough (pun intended) could go on television and lie that her children cannot get Nigerian citizenship because she is a woman is bad enough. But the fact that CNN, which interviewed her, has not fact-checked the claim and corrected it is alarming and shows collusion by that media organisation to de-market Nigeria.
“In her interview, aired on Sunday, July 20, Mrs. Badenoch, the head of the UK Conservative Party, said:
““It’s virtually impossible, for example, to get Nigerian citizenship. I have that citizenship by virtue of my parents. I can’t give it to my children because I’m a woman. Yet loads of Nigerians come to the UK, stay for a relatively free period of time, and acquire British citizenship.”
“First of all, how did Kemi Badenoch even get her British citizenship? Is it not because her parents were among the “loads of Nigerians” who “come to the UK, stay for a relatively free period of time, and acquire British citizenship”?
“Mrs. Badenoch is a British version of Nigeria’s Peter Obi, who thrives on a steady diet of lies, innuendo, fake news, and propaganda. Both of them have their favourite pastime, de-marketing Nigeria.
“For the avoidance of doubt, Section 25(1)(c) unequivocally and unambiguously grants automatic Nigerian citizenship to Kemi Badenoch’s children.
“The thing is that she might actually know that. In fact, I find it hard to believe that she does not know that. And if she doesn’t, she should not be the leader of the UK Conservative Party.
“The truth is that, like the sad Uncle Tom that they both are, she and Peter Obi have erroneously concluded that they can rise to the top in both the United Kingdom and Nigeria by slagging off their country of origin.
“I will counsel Kemi to learn from Barack Obama, who never denigrated Kenya, his ancestral homeland, but rather embraced it. Because he accepted it, he was supported by Americans and elected as their 44th President.
“I schooled in England. The English are very sophisticated, even where some can be conservative. The British are no fools. They, of course, will know that a person who cannot love their own ethnic kith and kin cannot also love their adopted nationality.
“After all, the English coined the phrase “Blood is thicker than water”!”
This is Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel, popularly known as Seal. He is a multiple Grammy Award winner, born in London to a Brazilian father and a Nigerian mother. And guess what? He is British Nigerian, and lived briefly in Nigeria in the seventies as a Nigerian citizen.
— Reno Omokri (@renoomokri) July 22, 2025
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