Nigerian VP who attacked Kemi Badenoch was accused of failures when Boko Haram kidnapped 200 girls

Kemi Badenoch is locked in a row with the vice president of the country she grew up in (Ben Whitley/PA) - (PA Wire)

Allies of Kemi Badenoch have urged people to scrutinise the record of the vice president of Nigeria who publicly criticised her this week after it emerged he was the governor of the region where 200 girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram.

VP Kashim Shettima this week hit out at the Tory leader in a speech this week accusing of “denigrating her country of origin”, while praising Rishi Sunak as a “brilliant young man, he never denigrated his nation of ancestry.”