The candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the February 25 presidential election, Prince Adewole Adebayo, has said that he is on the same page with
the outgoing Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, SAN, that the position of the Minister of State is a constitutional misnomer, as the constitution has no provision for such.
Adebayo, however, said he found it strange that Keyamo, having known the truth, accepted the illegal appointment and only to point it out after serving out his tenure. In a tweet, the former SDP presidential candidate, said: “I agree with @fkeyamo that designation of ‘Minister of State’ is a constitutional misnomer, which needs to be done away with. What I find hard to reconcile is why @fkeyamo would knowingly accept such unlawful appointment from @MBuhari only to voice it out after enjoying it to the fullest.”
Meanwhile, Prince Adebayo has congratulated the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on his conferment with the highest national honour of Grand Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic . He charged Tinubu to live up to the duties and responsibilities of honour, even as he advised him to place Nigerians first having achieved life-long ambition of becoming the president of Nigeria.
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