Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed this when he briefed State House correspondents.
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Firmly rebutting the allegation, the NGO in a statement affirmed that the allegation could easily be confirmed as spurious when cast against the background of the governance system enthroned by the management of the NCDMB
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, announced the price reduction after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday
Dickson stated this on Monday in Yenagoa during the official flag-off of the Peoples Democratic Party governorship campaign in the state
A statement on Wednesday by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Ndu Ughamadu, said Sylva pledged to work with experts at the National Oil Company and the other departments and agencies under the Ministry to move the sector forward
The President assigned the portfolios at the swearing in of the Ministers on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja
The group in a statement by its General Secretary, Stephen Ebibofa, and obtained by journalists in Abuja, claimed that Sylva was hell-bent on intimidating and blackmailing the judiciary using the Presidency to delay proceedings at the apex court even when all parties have already accepted service and filed their respective papers
The court in a unanimous decision of a five-man panel presided over by Jimmi Olukayode Bada, resolved all the five issues raised by Sylva and the All Progressives Congress in favour of Dickson and the Peoples Democratic Party
The bribe, according to claims on Sunday, was to manipulate the outcome of the December 2015 governorship election in the state in favour of the PDP
The Police Public Relations Officer in Bayelsa State, ASP Asinim Butswat, told newsmen in Yenagoa that the woman was released by her captors on November 9 at about 10pm
In the suit, No CV/70/15, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson & ANORVs Chief Timipre Sylva & ORS, the plaintiff are seeking the court to determine whether Sylva, the candidate of the APC for the December 5 governorship election in Bayelsa State, is qualified to contest as a candidate in the light of the provisions of Section 182 (1) (b) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended
His closest rival in the election, Timi Alaibe, who was a member of the Campaign Council, was absent, just as the APC Deputy National Publicity Secretary and a Bayelsa State indigene, Timi Frank, rejected his membership
The revelation came from the Secretary of Bayelsa Solidarity Forum, Comrade James Ebipade, who led the forum to the rally where over 400 other non-Governmental Organisations gathered to raise awareness on why Sylva’s bid to return to power should be rejected by the people
Already, a faction led by the state Chairman of the party, Tiwe Oruminige, has threatened to mobilise support and ensure that his members vote for the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Governor Seriake Dickson, in the forthcoming governorship election scheduled for December, 5 2015
A statement in Abuja by Africa reads: “My attention has been drawn to a story being circulated in the media by the Peoples Democratic Party to the effect that I was involved in an altercation or fracas with my party leader and All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva. The story is fictitious and malicious. At no time did such an incident happen between the APC leader and me or between him any other member of APC
Since the APC primary where the former governor emerged as candidate, there have been a relentless battle over who becomes his deputy as the jostle for the slot kept shifting from one supposedly anointed person to the other.
Sources privy to the development said Sylva had all along promised no fewer than six persons his running mate’s slot
The group, which said Sylva’s emergence was an insult to its collective membership, wondered why it was so difficult for the APC to get a better candidate other than Sylva and has vowed to resist his second coming even as a candidate
Sylva polled 981 votes to defeat his closest rival, Chief Godknows Powell, who scored 39 votes
According to them, since the former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission wants to reap from where he did not sow, he has become a liability to the APC in the state
In a statement issued on Friday in Yenagoa, the campaign maintained that the primary, which it claimed was won by Chief Timipre Sylva, was conducted in accordance with the party’s rules and guidelines set by the Independent National Electoral Commission and as such the party has no basis to cancel its outcomes