Momodu said of the late Fernandez: “Nigeria, and indeed Africa, has just lost one of its greatest sons. Ambassador Chief Antonio Dehinde Fernandez is gone!”
The multinational businessman was born in Lagos southwestern Nigeria into the Fernandez family that originated from Cuba and the first European migrant to Lagos State. He has been in diplomacy since 1996, he served as advisor to the Angolan Government on Economic matter in 1982, the position which he held for two years until his appointment as Deputy Permanent Representative of Mozambique to the United Nations in 1984. He runs an oil company called Petro Inett which obtained a 50% share with South African-based Energy Africa Limited in a deal with the state oil company for exploration rights in a 4,700 km2 area of Angola's coast in 1996. In 1992, he was appointed as Special Adviser to the President of Mozambique on International Economic Matters, a position he held for three years.
He was formerly married to Aduke Fernandez, whom he divorced in July 2003 following a £ 300m divorce suit in Scotland filled on July 1, 2003 by her counsel, but the case was dismissed by the court and he married Halima in 2003.
Fernandez died in Belgium yesterday after battling with an undisclosed illness for several months.
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