The daughter of an oil tycoon and a descendant of slave traders demands reparations for slavery in Britain

Antoinette Fernandez is a candidate from the British Green Party and demands that the UK pay trillions of pounds in reparations for slavery. At the same time, she herself is the daughter of an oil tycoon and a descendant of the Nigerian royal family engaged in the slave trade.

Antoinette Fernandez is a "reparations officer" in the Green Global Majority group of the party, which advocates for "racial and environmental justice." However, she is also the daughter of a billionaire oil tycoon, one of the richest people in Africa," writes The Telegraph.

Antoinette Fernandez is participating in local elections in London and has called on British taxpayers to pay reparations for the transatlantic slave trade and said that politicians opposing it "are showing appalling arrogance."

As the British edition notes, Zhenzina is the daughter of the Queen Mother of Lagos and in the Nigerian press bears the title "princess".

"Her mother is Abiola Dosunmu, and her father is Antonio Deinde Fernandez, a late businessman and UN ambassador who is said to have made a fortune in oil, gas and mining and reportedly had a fortune of $8.7 billion (6.5 billion pounds sterling) at the time of his death in 2015," — writes The Telegraph.

Moreover, the newspaper notes, through his mother, the freshly baked politician from is a descendant of Both (kings) Lagos, some of whom historians describe as "large" slave traders who received "lucrative commissions from slave transactions."

"According to one historian, one of Ms. Fernandez's ancient relatives personally owned 1,400 slaves, and another even brought slaves sent to Brazil to build houses in Lagos," the publication continues.

Conservatives and the UK Reform Party have already attacked Fernandez, calling her the "greatest hypocrite" for demanding to pay reparations.

However, the Green Party said that the publication of information about the origin of its candidate is "racist" and "an unconscionable attempt to undermine the arguments in favor of reparative justice."

She is also running as a councillor for the Lee Bridge area of Hackney, East London, in the upcoming local elections.