Timipre Sylva Resigns As Oil Minister, Joins Bayelsa Governorship Race

Timipre Sylva Resigns As Oil Minister, Joins Bayelsa Governorship Race

Timipre Sylva has resigned as Nigeria’s minister of state for petroleum sources to manipulate Bayelsa State once more on the All Progressive Congress occasion (APC) platform, sources advised Reuters on Thursday.

In line with Reuters, Sylva handed his resignation letter final week to President Muhammadu Buhari, the federal minister for petroleum, and stopped coming to the workplace.

“They stated he could be in search of the ruling All Progressives Congress ticket to run for Bayelsa governor in occasion primaries scheduled to happen on April 14,” Reuters stated.

As a candidate of the Individuals’s Democratic Get together, Sylva received the 2007 Bayelsa State gubernatorial election and succeeded Goodluck Jonathan, who grew to become Vice President.

He served as governor of Bayelsa for one full time period between 2008 and 2012. On the time, he was a member of the Individuals’s Democratic Get together, which was then in energy on the federal degree however is now in opposition.

Sylva’s opponent within the 2007 election, Ebitimi Amgbare of the Motion Congress, legally challenged his victory. Though the Bayelsa State Election Petitions Tribunal upheld Sylva’s election, Amgbare took the matter to the Attraction Court docket in Port Harcourt, which overturned the Tribunal’s determination and nullified Sylva’s election on April 15, 2008.

The Attraction Court docket’s 5 justices had been unanimous of their determination and ordered that Speaker Werinipre Seibarugo be sworn in to exchange Sylva as performing Governor, with a brand new election to be held inside three months.

A brand new election was held on Could 24, 2008, and Sylva, once more operating because the PDP candidate, was overwhelmingly elected with 588,204 out of about 598,000 votes. Nevertheless, on January 27, 2012, his tenure was terminated by the Supreme Court docket with an performing governor appointed to supervise the state till the election of February 2012.

President Buhari appointed Sylva on August 21, 2019, because the Minister of State for Petroleum Assets. He oversaw main reforms within the oil sector, together with passing laws that overhauled the sector’s fiscal regime to spur funding.