Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, has joined the race to run for the governorship seat of Bayelsa State.
It was gathered that associates and friends of the minister have purchased the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) nomination and expression of interest forms for the November 11, 2023 Bayelsa governorship election for the former governor.
On Monday, a group of friends stormed the ruling APC’s National Secretariat in Abuja to pick the nomination form in honour of the Minister from the Directorate of Organization.
Sylva was Governor of Bayelsa state from 2008 to 2012.
In 2019, he was appointed as Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum Resources.