A Federal High Court in Abuja has ruled that former Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun, did not require a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificate to occupy a cabinet position in Nigeria.
Adeosun resigned as Nigeria’s finance minister in 2018 following an allegation that she forged her NYSC certificate. The court ruling was silent on the forgery part.
Adeosun’s lawyer, Wole Olanipekun, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), had asked the court to decide whether the plaintiff, being a United Kingdom citizen as at 1989 when she graduated from the University of East London, London, the United Kingdom at the age of 22 years, was ineligible to participate in the National Youth Service Corps scheme, established by the National Youth Service Corps Act, CAP N8, LFN, 2004.
Justice Taiwo Taiwo held that the NYSC certificate based on the constitution is not a mandatory requirement for holding a political office in the country.