The days of pretenses are over. I mean those early days, when one saleswoman in her desperation hustled Nigerian voters in the United Kingdom to help her break into politics – to support a fellow Nigerian “who is trying to improve our national image.” Hear…hear…hear…Kemi Adegoke… Oh sorry…Kemi Badenoch – improve the image of Nigeria? Please permit me to use some laughter. No one in living memory has lampooned or put Nigeria down like this woman. She has painted Nigeria in the eye of the British as a demonic place fit for nothing. Our aspiring “Oyibo” would rob it in when in one interview she blurted she does not want the United Kingdom to be like “the place I ran away from.”
Kemi was raised until she was 16 in Nigeria. I wonder how she survived that “demonic place” in those her early years. I just wonder or is it that as a Nigerian is wont to say that this woman just used Naija to “cruise” to the top? But the Bible says out of the abundance of the heart the mouth confesses. Or how does one explain the futile attempts this woman had made to rewrite history about the twin-evil of the slave trade and colonialism. The white suprematists, racists and their ilks put together have never defended these evil acts like Kemi.
I was having a heated conversation with one gentleman this week about the ascension of Kemi to the Tory’s throne. We were weighing the pros and cons of her victory when of a sudden this guy became so animated he vowed Kemi can never be Prime Minister of Britain. I cautioned him not to bet on that assertion because all over the place democracy has gone to the dogs. Con men and women have grabbed democracy by the scruff of the neck, hence half and nitwits are presiding over sane people all over the place. I pointed to European neighbors where con artists have managed their way to national politics. As if that won’t do I pointed him to recent events in the United States of America, where a convicted criminal and “mother” of all con artists was voted to the White House. My guy was crestfallen.
