UK Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has disclosed that she no longer feels connected to Nigeria. In an interview on the Rosebud Podcast on Friday, Badenoch said that her Nigerian passport has not been renewed since the early 2000s. She explained that while she occasionally keeps up with events in the country, the UK feels more like home, where she lives and works.
“I have not renewed my Nigerian passport, I think, not since the early 2000s,” Badenoch said. “I’ve never quite felt that I belonged there. I don’t identify with it [Nigeria] anymore, most of my life has been in the UK, and I’ve just never felt the need to.”
Badenoch, who was born in Wimbledon, South West London, returned to the UK after spending some years in Nigeria. This decision, she said, was made by her parents who believed there was no promising future for her in the country. “I think the reason that I came back here was actually a very sad one, and it was that my parents thought, ‘there is no future for you in this country’.”
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