2023: You are not there forever — Keyamo warns public officers

Festus Keyamo 

The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has warned public officers in Nigeria to make good use of their time in office, adding that power is transient.



According to him, ‘no one can annex public office as a personal chattel’ , hence reason he stays back from the razzmatazz of public office.

The minister said this in a terse statement on his official Twitter page on Thursday morning.

Public officers must always bear in mind the cliche that power is transient. They have limited time to make their modest contributions & bow out for others to continue. No one can annex public office as a personal chattel. That’s why I recoil from the razzmatazz of public office

— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) January 9, 2020

He tweeted: “Public officers must always bear in mind the cliche that power is transient. They have limited time to make their modest contributions and bow out for others to continue.

“No one can annex public office as a personal chattel. That’s why I recoil from the razzmatazz of public office.”


Recall that former Lagos governor, Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, dismissed speculations that President Muhammadu Buhari had a third term agenda.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader also urged Nigerians to discard search of Buhari’s sucessor.