31 Mar Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum resigns?
Nigeria’s Timipre Sylva has resigned as the country’s minister of state for petroleum to seek a new term as governor of oil-producing Bayelsa State in the southern Niger Delta, sources told Reuters on Thursday.
According to a Reuters report, Sylva handed his resignation letter last week to Buhari, who doubles as petroleum minister, and stopped coming to the office, said two sources who did not want to be identified.
They said he would be seeking the ruling All Progressives Congress ticket to run for Bayelsa governor in party primaries scheduled to take place on April 14. The petroleum ministry declined to comment.
Sylva served as governor of Bayelsa for one full term between 2008 and 2012. At the time, he was a member of the People’s Democratic Party, which was then in power at the federal level but is now in opposition.
Appointed junior oil minister in August 2019, Sylva oversaw major reforms in the oil sector, including the passing of legislation that overhauled the sector’s fiscal regime in a bid to spur investment.
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