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2023 Election: Why I Won’t Resign My Position As Minister – Keyamo

by Victor Ndubuisi
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Festus Keyamo, the minister of state for labor and employment, has explained why he won’t be stepping down from his position.

According to Anaedoonline.ng, Keyamo was recently chosen to serve as the presidential campaign council’s spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress (APC).

In an interview with Newsmen over the weekend, Keyamo stated that he won’t step down since he can combine the two duties successfully and that there is no rule prohibiting him from doing so.

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Because he is not utilizing ministry resources to manage the campaign council, the minister said there is no conflict of interest.

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Keyamo was responding to requests for him to resign from his ministerial position made by the Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), a group of civil society members.

The TMG had requested him to resign from his ministerial position last week through its chairman, Awwal Ibrahim Rafsanjani, as doing so could put him in a conflict of interest.

According to Keyamo, the organization feigns to be a civil society group while actually supporting the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which is in opposition.

He claimed that while the Goodluck Jonathan administration was in power and several of its ministers were on the campaign committees of the opposition party, the organization did not object.

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He wrote: “Without meaning to demean these civil society organisations, I have noticed some disturbing trends from 2015 till date. It heightened in 2019 when we discovered that many of them worked for the opposition party, disguised as CSOs. We even identified some individuals amongst them who had contested offices before under the Peoples Democratic Party.

“I believe that is a call made by the opposition disguised as CSOs. We didn’t hear any noise when some ministers in the past were part of the campaign councils of the opposition party when they were in power.

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“Kabiru Turaki was the Minister of Special Duties at that time but served as the Deputy Director North of the Jonathan Campaign team, among others. I am a member of the All Progressives Congress. The party also takes part of my salary to pay my dues. It is deducted from the source. So I’m entitled to take part in party activities. It could be likened to extracurricular activities.

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“There is no conflict of interest because I am not using the ministry resources to run this. Also, Section 84 (12) (of the Electoral Act says public officers should resign when they want to participate in political activities, which include running for office, among others, but the section does not include party activities like this, and my kind of duties are not affected.”

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