“Your Daughter, Kemi Badenoch, Is Our Future Prime Minister” – Fmr British PM, Boris Johnson Hails Nigeria

By Charles Igbo

A former British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has hailed Nigeria for giving his country its “future Prime Minister”, Kemi Badenoch.

Badenoch, Nigerian by birth, is the leader of the Conservative Party.

Badenoch, really, has no use for Nigeria, a country which she runs down at any given opportunity.  But Johnson does not think Nigeria is no good.

Johnson spoke on Thursday  in Owerri, Imo State, during the State’s two-day Economic Summit.

According to Johnson,  while the UK exports pharmaceuticals, automotive parts and other economic items, Nigeria sends “so much in return such as oil and gas, Nollywood movies, brilliant doctors, nurses, technicians, and tech geniuses, among others.

“I will say nothing of those former colonies of France, but it’s wonderful; it’s absolutely wonderful that here in Nigeria, we are united, we have this huge blessing — ties of history and language and woven together constantly by the toing and froing of brilliant Nigerians to my country and and back again, and British people are coming to Nigeria, and of course I’m proud, very proud.

“We’re very grateful and honoured. And we send you former United Kingdom prime ministers, and you send us future United Kingdom prime ministers in the form of Kemi Badenoch, who comes from Nigeria and is doing better and better these days.

“And I think the greatest hope that we have, and not just the exports or the imports, is the things that we actually do together, the things that we do in partnership.

“And that there’s just so much, a Nigerian singer who stole the show in the recent coronation of our king, the Nigerian football players who have millions if not billions of fans in the Premier League and who have admirers around the world, Nigerian artists, there’s a huge Nigerian show on right now at Tate Modern, Anglo-Nigerian films that are being nominated for the Oscars.”