A former Minister of External Affairs, Prof Bolaji Akinyemi, has berated the leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, over her latest denigration of Nigeria.
The former Director General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs said Badenoch was wrong for denigrating Nigeria on the global stage to advance her political career.
Speaking during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Monday, Akinyemi said Badenoch will soon learn her lessons, addding that her stories about Nigeria are for political gains.
He said, “How the daughter of a Professor of UNILAG, her father who was a medical doctor, a girl who went to the international school at UNILAG would make it sound like she was selling groundnut and selling water in Lagos to advance her political career.
“She would soon learn that you don’t throw your people and your…
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