Kemi Adeosun
Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, The immediate past Minister of Finance, has left Nigeria to London, United Kingdom.
According to Sunday Punch, multiple sources at the airport confirmed her departure on Saturday night.
Adeosun, who resigned her appointment as finance minister after
being indicted by the National Youth Service Corps that she forged her
exemption certificate, was said to have travelled with a British Airways
flight to London.
The British Airways aircraft that she took to London according to
sources at the airport left the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at
exactly 8:05am on Saturday.
One of the sources who pleaded not to be named as he was not
officially permitted to speak on the matter said that the minister was
sighted at the airport before she boarded the flight.
The source said, “The (ex) finance minister was at the airport this morning and she has travelled out of the country to UK.
“She left with a British Airways flight which departed the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at exactly 8:05am.”
Attempts to get comments from the ex-finance minister’s Media
Adviser, Oluyinka Akintunde, were not successful as repeated calls made
to his mobile were not replied.
When contacted, the spokesperson for the British Airways, Yinka Kola, said, ‘Unfortunately,
due to data protection laws, I am unable to provide that information as
whatever all our passengers do are entirely private to them.”
But the Peoples Democratic Party earlier on Saturday alleged that the Federal Government was plotting to help the former minister of finance to escape from the country
The party insisted that she must be arrested and prosecuted for
deserting national service and forging her NYSC Exemption Certificate in
addition to alleged impropriety and abuse of office as minister.
The PDP asked Nigerians to note that President Muhammadu Buhari,
whose administration it said had become notorious for shielding its many
fraudulent and corrupt officials, could not summon the rectitude to
sack Adeosun.
The party added that she would have still been in office, if not
for the sustained uproar by Nigerians and international creditors.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan,
said in a statement in Abuja that the Federal Government, which earlier
made efforts to defend Adeosun, had already perfected a plot to help
her to evade prosecution.
He said that the Federal Government was afraid that her prosecution
could make her to open up on the alleged humongous corruption going on
in the financial sector under the Buhari administration.
The party said, “Furthermore, we are also aware that President
Buhari was not by any measure prepared to drop her from his cabinet but
for the demand by those responsible for her appointment, who protested
her continued stay in office, although for their own selfish gains. A
case of corruption fighting back!
“The PDP, therefore, demands an immediate open inquest into the
records of the Finance Ministry under Adeosun, to unravel all
improprieties by the Buhari Presidency cabal, including alleged
diversion of oil proceeds, fraudulent oil subsidy deals, leading to high
fuel price; depletion of our foreign reserves, embezzling of funds
returned by Switzerland and other huge sleazes in the ministry.
“The party also insists that President Buhari must be held
responsible for all infractions in the finance ministry under Adeosun,
as he appointed and retained her despite having information on the
certificate forgery; a situation that confirms the decadence and lack of
due diligence in the Buhari Presidency.”