Adeosun is nothing but “A middle level accountant”

A colleague, who worked with Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun in a consortium in early 2000s Nigeria, has given a less than ringing endorsement of her economic competencies.

London-born Adeosun read economics at the University of East London and then qualified as a chartered accountant.

This inadequacy didn’t seem to be much of a hindrance as Adeosun exploited her connections with the influential Wale Edun, a former Commissioner for Finance in Lagos State, and Ibikunle Amosun, the Ogun State governor to climb the greasy pole to the top. Adeosun worked at Chapel Hill Denham Management with Edun who recommended her to Amosun as Finance Commissioner in Ogun State in 2011.

Amosun then pushed her forward for the finance ministry after Muhammadu Buhari became president last year – even though Bola Tinubu,the former governor of Lagos State put Edun’s name forward for the job. Amosun and Tinubu don’t reportedly see eye to eye.

Adeosun’s former colleague insisted to Naijiant that she got the job as Nigeria’s economy supremo “because of politics” and she shouldn’t have been in the “A Team” of economic experts. This was because she “had no clout, no initiative” and was “not humble enough to accept she doesn’t know”.