Who is Festus Keyamo?
Festus Egwarewa Keyamo is a Nigerian Human Rights Activist and Lawyer who currently serves as the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development of Nigeria under President Tinubu's administration. He was born on the 21st of January, 1970 to Caroline Abeni Keyamo and Pa Matthias Keyamo.
Festus Keyamo biography
Festus Keyamo was born to his parents in Ughelli community in Delta State. He finished his primary and secondary education at Model Primary School and Ughelli Government College respectively. After he graduated from the Government College Ughelli in 1986, Keyamo furthered his studies at the Ambrose Alli University to pursue a Bachelor of Law degree.
He successfully graduated from the University in 1992 and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1993. The Nigerian Lawyer has two kids namely Nicole Keyamo and Festus Keyamo Jnr. That's not all, Festus Keyamo is also a member of the All Progressive Congress (APC) political party and has continued to pursue his political career. In 2019, Festus served under the Muhammadu Buhari administration as the Minister of State for Labour and Employment. That stay in the office ended on the 29th of May, 2023.
Presently, he assumed the position of the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development of Nigeria under President Tinubu's administration. This happened on the 21st of August, 2023.
Festus Keyamo screening
On the 7th of August 2023, the Senate house was in an uproar when Darlington Nwokocha (Abia Central) moved a motion asking Festus Keyamo to step down as the ministerial nominee. Darling Nwokocha opined that Festus' name should be scrapped from the ministerial list nominee because of a past offense. What was the offense, you'd ask? Well, Nwokocha opined that Festus ignored the humble invitation of the National Assembly in 2020 to explain an issue of misappropriation of funds to the public.
For that reason, Nwokocha moved for the removal of Festus name and was seconded by Enyinnaya Abaribe from APGA, Abia South. While these two were in support of removing Festus name from the ministerial list, others strongly opposed the idea.
Godwill Akpabio, the Senate President was left to handle the cry of the Senators and he did. He urged everyone to calm down and explained to them how Festus Keyamo was thoroughly considered before adding his name to the Ministerial list.
In the end, Festus Keyamo apologized for his wrongdoings and his name remained on the Ministerial list. Today, he is the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development in Nigeria.
Watch where the Lawmakers asked Festus Keyamo to step down
Watch his apology video.
Festus Keyamo Twitter
Festus Keyamo is on Twitter. Below is his Twitter handle. He has 1.1 million followers.https://twitter.com/fkeyamo?t=4Pj7wWlDm7qmMqksYvfX1g&s=09