President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has accepted the resignation of the Finance Minister, KEMI ADEOSUN.

This was revealed in a statement yesterday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, FEMI ADESINA.

ADEOSUN had been enmeshed in the controversy over her NYSC exemption certificate after a publication by an online medium concerning the authenticity of the document.

In her resignation letter, the former minister noted that she was shocked by the outcome of the investigation done on the allegation suggesting that her NYSC certificate, was not genuine.

She said that in 2011, she tendered it before the Ogun State House of Assembly for screening as a commissioner and also to the National Assembly in 2015 for ministerial screening and was cleared on both occasions.

ADEOSUN said that she never knew the certificate was not genuine until the scandal broke out.

The minister said she was born and brought up in the United Kingdom and that until she was 34, she had only been visiting Nigeria with her UK passport on holidays.

The president has however asked the Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Mrs. ZAINAB AHMED, to oversee the finance ministry as from Friday.

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