Kemi Badenoch, the Tory Leader

Nigeria are predictably thrilled and excited as stories spread that Kemi Badenoch, the new Leader of Tories in the United Kingdom is a Briton with Nigerian roots. It is natural. Her dizzy-heights attainment is a feat hardly dreamt of by a lady of colour, to follow in the footsteps of Baroness Margaret Thatcher.

It is even less so as she is Black in the major party of class, called the Conservative Party. It is a distinct party of aristocrats and captains of industries. It is a party that prides itself as the custodian of the British values. It is the party of the leaders of the British society, who talk about free market economy, personal responsibility, hard work, family life and culture of refinement.

Mrs. Kemi Badenoch was born in Britain in 1980 to Nigerian parents, the father, now late, a medical doctor; and the mother a professor of physiology. Kemi is married to a White Briton. Some may want to probe further beyond the surface by asking themselves, who is she?

After her secondary education in Nigeria, she went back to Britain, the land of her birth for her university degree programme in computer engineering at Sussex. A mother of three, she feels at home in Britain. Who she is in her being we may never know. We can only sense that it is not impossible that she was British in a not-to-far past incarnation and she needs to close a cycle urgently by serving her people diligently in this earthlife opportunity.

Did she depart prematurely in the former life without accomplishing what she owed her people, the British, and she supplicated for another opportunity, like all of us , to make good her past, grow and turn her gaze upwards afterwards in ascent to On High? We may not know.

The threads of old probably linked her to her parents or one of them through the Law of Homogeneity. Possibilities! Possibilities!! What does man know? What do we know? Her mission would appear to be urgent!!

All said, she has demonstrated to the world that needs to be reminded frequently that the possibilities for a human spirit to reach the heights are limitless with persistence, doggedness and the right application to set goals. Her attainment is what needs to be celebrated for now. There will always be time for debate about her pronouncements as a former British and His Majesty’s Minister! She is a Briton speaking for Britain and Britain is her home! We should rejoice with her and wish her well in her high tasks.