Timipre Sylva has resigned as the minister of state for petroleum to seek the ruling All Progressives Congress ticket in the upcoming governorship election in Bayelsa.

Mr Sylva tendered his resignation letter to President Muhammadu Buhari last week, but the details of the resignation were kept private until now, Reuters said on Thursday night.

Mr Sylva was appointed to the ministry in 2019 by Mr Buhari, who has kept the position of petroleum minister to himself.

Mr Sylva, 58, was Bayelsa governor from 2008 to 2012, when he failed to win reelection. He now seeks the APC’s ticket in Bayelsa to govern the oil-rich state for another term of four years. The election will hold on November 11, 2023.

Spokespersons for Mr Sylva and the State House did not immediately return requests seeking comments about the development late Thursday.

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After he has eating and braked plates.

Okay o

The first time we are hearing such English

Obviously not satisfied with the looted funds
he has from the Petroleum Ministry,

this guy wants to be Governor again to loot more money.

I’m his four years as a Governor he got over 50 building properties and many were seized by EFCC. Only God knows how many he will acquire if he gets to the sit this time around. Wicked human being.

KillerCrocodile:
Obviously not satisfied with the looted funds
he has from the Petroleum Ministry,

this guy wants to be Governor again to loot more money.

That is the way of a typical carrier Nigerian politician. It's all about how much they can steal from the treasury and not what they can do for their people, unfortunately the people are too slow and greedy to see their true colors.

Greed.... Money siphoned from petroleum ministry will be used to fund his governorship aspiration.... Worst still, he's contesting under APC

Buhari is a great enabler of corruption!

This one will fail wotowoto in bayelsa state.. he must not be allowed to kontinu looting and raping the resources of that state.. Bayelsans please do the needful

There must be something at government houses that is always attracting these guys.

You were governor.

Now you are minister.

You still want to go back as governor.

They never want to give another person a chance.

And in over 20 years, we keep hearing about same set of people in governance.

If it’s not greed, Sylva would have allowed David Lyon to get the APC ticket again. The people already love Lyon and they voted for him in the past. And I’m sure they will still vote for him now.

I pray he fails.

Onye ala!

Junior petroleum minister you say?

He was asked if he could buy a litre of fuel for 300 naira,he said he could buy.That means he has not been buying fuel from his pocket.He will now be pretending like he has good policy for his state when he cant build a local refinery before removing subsidy.

Good for him

This is not looking good. Sylva should have supported David Lyon. With David, APC is sure of winning Bayelsa state.

This criminal is still angling to come back to loot again.

More candidates, more merrier.

seunmsg:
This is not looking good. Sylva should have supported David Lyon. With David, APC is sure of winning Bayelsa state.

Guess you still remember about 50 of his fraudulently acquired property seized by the EFCC from this criminal in the time past were returned unto Sylva under by APC govt? Guess you didn't remember he was a corrupt fella under the then PDP? Hypocrite!

This one will still lose his election come November 11th 2023.

Penguin2:
There must be something at government houses that is always attracting these guys.

You were governor.

Now you are minister.

You still want to go back as governor.

They never want to give another person a chance.

And in over 20 years, we keep hearing about same set of people in governance.

If it’s not greed, Sylva would have allowed David Lyon to get the APC ticket again. The people already love Lyon and they voted for him in the past. And I’m sure they will still vote for him now.

I pray he fails.

Onye ala!

Sylva will get the APC governorship ticket and also push David Lyon out of APC in bayelsa State. Na David Lyon I dey pity here.

Greedy man. I wonder what you left in the government house that you want to get back. Our politicians are really shameless. Greedy for power at any cost.

OK

Good for him.

Hope he will not beg to return to his junior mini star like Amaechi.

Rubbish

Lol @ Junior Petroleum minister

Nigeria man dey resign

Next Bayelsa state Governor

joker

You know that you have lose both sides