The governorship election quest of Timipre Sylva, who resigned last week as President Muhammadu Buhari’s minister of state for petroleum, is hanging by a thread following evidence-laced allegations of falsified credentials and stolen identities levelled against him before the Senate.
Mr Sylva also filed processes to change his name to Timipre Sylva in an official Nigerian government gazette of May 12, 2022, apparently after learning that his identity infractions could put his governorship ambition in jeopardy, the petition said.
Before seeking to change his name in an official gazette, Mr Sylva had already served as Bayelsa governor between 2007 and 2012 and also minister of state for petroleum resources, among other top-level state and federal positions.
The latest forgery and identity theft accusations were enumerated in a petition filed by Timi Frank, former publicity secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), and sent to Senate President Ahmad Lawan, was prayed to…
