VP Shettima’s ill-advised Kemi Badenoch bashing

NOW that the storm over  Kemi  Badenoch,  the  British opposition leader of Nigerian descent,  is subsiding,  it is time to do a critique of the entire episode.

Let me start this critique with Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the one who started the fireworks.  According to the story, Abike had reached out to celebrate Kemi, as she usually does to Nigerian Diaspora achievers,  on her landmark election to the leadership of the British Conservative party but that her gesture of goodwill was ignored, not reciprocated.  She had disclosed this during an interview  which unleashed a lynch mob on Kemi.  The question arises: Why was it difficult for  Abike to make  this information public, with circumspect, rather than projecting  Kemi as slighting and denigrating Nigeria ?  I see an ego factor here.  Apparently, Abike, a three-term House of Representatives member and CEO of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM)  felt miffed that a younger person  could show what she must have …