Career
As a Group Captain, Kefas was appointed governor of Delta State on 26 September 1994. While governor of Delta State, he sacked professor Frank Mene Adedemiswanye Ukoli, Vice-Chancellor of Delta State University for political reasons, an incident recorded in Ukoli"s book A state university is born: throes of birth, ordeals of growth. In March 2002, as Taraba State Chairman of People"s Democratic Party, Kefas and other PDP politicians were attacked by over 200 youths who invaded a PDP rally, and narrowly escaped death.
Kefas was nominated as National Democratic Party) (NDP) candidate for governor in the 2007 elections in Taraba State.