A Nigerian born Conservative party parliamentarian, Kemi Bademoch has joined the race to succed Boris Johnson as British Prime Minister.
Kemi Bademoch got into the British Parliament In 2017, and was BEFORE last week’s mass resignation that hit the Boris Johnson cabinet, a minister of state for local government, Faith and communities, and also the Minisiterof state for Equalities.
Born to Nigerian parents of Yoruba extraction in Wimbledon, London just a day after New Year’s Day, 42 years ago, as Kemi Adegoke, as she then was, spent some years in America, then came.to Lagos where she lived and schooled before returning to the UK at age 16 to enrol and earn a bachelor’s degree in computer systems at the University of Sussex.
Almost a decade later, she obtained a degree in Law from the University of London.
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Most of Kemi’s career was in the banking sector as an IT expert, and she also had a brief stint in the media as the IT director at the World’s oldest Magazine, the Spectator.
Mrs Kemi Badenoch had in 2012 unsuccessfully contested a seat on the London Assembly, and was in 2015 selected as a London Assembly member, and supported the UK exiting the European Union in the 2016 referendum.
She is married to Hamish, and they have two daughters and a son
Political watchers may say she is not a front-runner to become the UK Conservative party leader and eventually Prime Minister, but Kemi, in her announcing her candidacy in a british newspaper , says she is eminently qualified, and will seek the votes of 357 Tory colleagues in the Commons in the late July contest.
