To succeed in marriage, submit to your husband” Keyamo tells cousin

&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">he Honourable Minister of State for Labour and Employment&comma; Festus Keyamo&comma; SAN&comma; waxed pastoral over the weekend&comma; admonishing one of his cousins&comma; Maryam Keyamo&comma; who got married on Saturday&comma; November 23&comma; to imbibe the spirit of loyalty to marriage ethics and submit to her husband as required by God&period; The bride&comma; Maryam&comma; who got married &nbsp&semi;to Desmond Chima&comma; a young and successful media entrepreneur and manager of popular music superstar&comma; Harrysong grew up under Keyamo’s tutelage&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The marriage was a&NewLine;fanfare of a sort kicking off in Warri&comma; Delta State with a traditional ceremony&NewLine;before the white wedding held at the Decorum Events Centre&comma; Oregun&comma; Ikeja&comma;&NewLine;Lagos&period; The Minister who&NewLine;attended the wedding in capacity of the Chairman and bride&&num;8217&semi;s &&num;8216&semi;father&&num;8217&semi; bluntly&NewLine;advised the young lady on the secrets of marital bliss&comma; &&num;8220&semi;you have to make&NewLine;sure you submit all to your husband&comma; total submission and respect are some of&NewLine;the basic rules to a lasting marriage&&num;8221&semi;&comma; the Minister advised&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Buttressing his point&comma;&NewLine;the Senior Advocate of Nigeria reminded the newly-wed about their elderly&NewLine;siblings whose marriages have been waxing stronger and why it has been so&comma;&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;I could remember at a time&comma; long ago before the advent of GSM&comma; my sister&NewLine;left her husband&&num;8217&semi;s house in Port-Harcourt and visited us in Warri&comma; on the&NewLine;second day&comma; my father asked for the letter that authorized her for the visit&NewLine;and when she couldn&&num;8217&semi;t produce it&comma; he compelled her to go back immediately and&NewLine;ever since&comma; she never repeated such strange visit&comma; today she&&num;8217&semi;s been married&comma; I&NewLine;think for 18 years and same with all of them&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">So&comma; Maryam&comma; don&&num;8217&semi;t come and tell me your problems&comma; stay in your husband&&num;8217&semi;s house and I pray God in His infinite mercies continue to bless the union&period; On a lighter mood&comma; the Minister took a jibe at the groom&comma; Desmond Chima whom he accused of &&num;8220&semi;stealing&&num;8221&semi; his daughter while on a business mission to his Law Chambers&comma; &&num;8220&semi;I was surprised to see Desmond who was a client still coming around even after the case was over&comma; so I asked them one day&comma; what&&num;8217&semi;s Desmond still looking for here&comma; only to find out he has actually &&num;8216&semi;stole&&num;8217&semi; my daughter&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">On a final note&comma; the&NewLine;Minister advised the groom never to raise his hands on his wife&comma; the worst&NewLine;thing any man can do is to beat his wife&comma; please don&&num;8217&semi;t do it&comma; he told the&NewLine;groom&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Keyamo&comma; who was&NewLine;appointed cabinet minister in President Buhari’s administration&comma; has since hit&NewLine;the ground running through empowerment and innovative governance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;