Nigerians are sharply reacting to the Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch’s sacking of Robert Jenrick, a Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom (UK), on Thursday over secretly plotting to defect to Reform UK.
Nigerians appear to like the quick step that Badenoch took against a secret defector before he could carry out his action. Her decision to sack the MP contradicts the culture of Nigerian politicians who defect at will without consequence.
There are some Nigerians though, who do not like the sacking of the defecting MP. We don’t know their reason(s) for taking such position.
The Tory leader, Badenoch, claimed she had “clear, irrefutable evidence” that Jenrick would leave the Tories, therefore stripping him of the Conservative whip and suspending his party membership.
She said: “I have sacked Robert Jenrick from the Shadow Cabinet. The British publics are tired of political psychodrama, and so am I. They saw too much of it in the last government; they are seeing too much of it in this government.”
In reaction to her decision, Nigerians trooped in drove to social media to pour commendations and condemnations on the 46-year-old British politician for her action.
A Facebook user, Destiny Ikechukwu, said: “She sacked him when he was at the defection ground without his knowledge. Nice one, Kemi.”
Another Facebook user, Azi Aware said: “While Nigerian politicians defect for a living. We lack ideology and direction.”