One of the chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and former Kaduna lawmaker who represented Kaduna Central at the National Assembly, Senator Shehu Sani has reacted after the Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM, Abike Dabiri-Erewa said they reached out to UK Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch but there was no response.
According to DAILY POST, Abike Dabiri-Erewa stated that;
“It depends on whether she embraces her Nigerian identity. We reached out to her once or twice, but there was no response. We don’t force anyone to acknowledge being Nigerian. We are open to working with anyone who sees themselves as Nigerian, but it’s not something we can force”.
Reacting to the report, Senator Shehu Sani stated that If African-Americans are still being reminded that they belong to Africa, a Nigerian singing the colonial song in the UK parliament will not change his or her true identity.
Here is what Shehu Sani wrote on his page;
“No matter how much and how long an adopted child loves his new home and hates his ancestral home, there will come a day he or she will be reminded by his adopted home that he doesn’t belong there”.