BREAKING: Court Clears Ex-Finance Minster Adeosun Of NYSC Controversy

A Federal High Court in Abuja has cleared former Finance Minister, Mrs. Kemi Adosun, of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificate forgery which resulted in her resignation in 2018.

Justice Taiwo Taiwo, in his ruling on the originating summon with suit number: FHC/ABJ/CS/303/21 brought by Wole Olanipekun on her behalf, held that the NYSC certificate based on the constitution is not a mandatory requirement for holding a political office in the country.

”I am of the view that denying the plaintiff of the relieves sought is not going to be doing justice to the matter,” he said.

The judge proceeded to grant the four reliefs sought by the plaintiff, to include “a declaration that the plaintiff, being a United Kingdom citizen as at 1989 when she graduated from the University of East London, United Kingdom at 22, she was ineligible to participate in the National Youth Service Corpse scheme, established by the National Youth Service Corps Act, CAP N8, LFN, 2004”