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Last Thursday, Arise TV‘s Morning Show hosts, Reuben Abati, Tundun Abiola, and Rufai Oseni interviewed Inibehe Effiong, a human rights lawyer, and Dele Ogun, a lawyer and ‘brother’ of Nigeria’s former finance minister, Kemi Adeosun, on the ruling of the Federal High Court, Abuja. The court held that Mrs Adeosun did not breach any law by being appointed a minister in 2015 without participating in the National Youth Service Corps scheme. Below is the interview as transcribed by PREMIUM TIMES’ Ifeoluwa Adeniran.
Reuben Abati: What are the big issues in this matter with regards to what looks like the vindication of former minister of finance, Kemi Adeosun, and then with regards also to the relevant provision of the 1979 Constitution, the 1999 Constitution, and also, I think Section 13(2) of the NYSC Act?