Presidential aide slams Kemi Badenoch over false claim on Nigerian citizenship A presidential aide, Dada Olusegun, has severely criticised ...

 Presidential aide slams Kemi Badenoch over false claim on Nigerian citizenship

A presidential aide, Dada Olusegun, has severely criticised the Conservative Party leader and British Secretary of State for Business and Trade, Kemi Badenoch, over her recent statement on Nigerian citizenship, labelling her as stealing the law of the country and causing a misleading story concerning her home country.

 The British born politician of Nigerian origin who is Badenoch stated in an interview to CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS on Sunday that, being a Nigerian woman, she is no able to transfer her citizenship to her children, which outraged many.  Her claim was drawn when she was drawing parallels between the law of citizenship in Nigeria and United Kingdom.

 Responding on Monday through his official X Twitter page, Dada Olusegun noted that he found the comments unfactually true and a slap in the face.

 Why are you telling lies, aunty @KemiBadenoch, where is your motherland?  Why this continual and wanton and desperate attempt to demean Nigeria?" he wrote.

 Olusegun stated and quoted the Nigerian Constitution by saying that section 25(1) (c) of the 1999 constitution (as amended) as clearly stated that a person born outside Nigeria would be a citizen of the country by birth as long as either of his parents is a citizen of this country, whether a man or a woman.

 This is irrespective of the nationality of the father.  With her child, there would be no need to register or naturalise her to be a citizen, Olusegun observed, as a case of Badenoch being naive or deliberately misinforming the masses because there is no need to do any of these.

 Badenoch was born in United Kingdom to Nigerian parents, she spent some of her childhood in Lagos and moved back to the United Kingdom when she was 16. Maria is a banker with a Scottish husband and three kids.

 Olusegun concluded his speech by telling those involved with the public, especially the personalities of the Nigerian origin who have power and influence where they speak publicly, to be honest and responsible about what they say because a single mis-information could be used to sustain harmful stereotype and unnecessary tension.