"Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the British Labor or Conservative Party. We are proud of her despite her efforts at denigrating her nation of origin," he said during the 10th Annual Migration Dialogue at the State House in the capital, Abuja.
"I was lucky in my experiences. I was born to a relatively wealthy family and had a decent education. But I also know what it is like to be poor. I watched my family become poor as their wealth, income and savings were inflated away by destructive government policies," she said at the International Democracy Unionon Forum in Washington on Monday.
"She is entitled to her own opinions; she has even every right to remove the "Kemi" [a female name in the West African Yoruba language] from her name, but that does not [undermine] the fact that the greatest black nation on earth is the nation called Nigeria," Shettima noted.
"One out of every three, four black men is a Nigerian, and by 2050, Nigeria will surpass the US [the population] and will be the third most populous nation on Earth," he pointed out.