Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Badenoch has taken over the leadership of the British Centre right party the Conservatives after a surprise win.
She takes over from Rishi Sunak at a critical time when the party is still reeling from its worst general election defeat in history. She definitely has her work cut out for her.
In the last five years alone the Conservative party has had five leaders with most of them falling because of betrayal, backstabbing and factionalism within the party. Boris Johnson came to power after sabotaging Theresa May while Rishi Sunak came to power after engineering Boris Johnson’s down fall.
Therefore the question many are asking is whether she will be able to hold onto her position until the next general election.Making her position even more precarious is that she won by the slimmest margin in the history of the party’s leadership election.
How long she stays in the position that was once occupied by Margaret Thatcher and Sir Winston Churchill will largely depend on her ability to unite different factions within the party especially after the divisive leadership election.
Born in South London to Nigerian parents in 1980, she was taken to Nigeria where she spent her early childhood until the age of 16 years when she returned to Britain. Most Nigerian parents do this to enable their children to experience and learn the African way of life and virtues.
She then studied Computer Systems Engineering at the University of Sussex, completing a Master of Engineering (MEng) degree in 2003.
