Nigeria, April, 2, 2016 – The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa state has suspended former governor of the state and its governorship candidate in the last governorship election, Chief Timipre Sylva from the party.
Chairman of APC in Bayelsa, Timipa Tiwei Orunimighe and the secretary, Daniel Marlin announced the suspension of Sylva today in Abuja.The former governor was suspended following allegations that the minister of state for agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri bribed Sylva to secure his ministerial nomination.
Deputy National Secretary of APC, Mr. Timi Frank had called for suspension of the former governor to enable the party carry out investigation into the bribery allegations.
“Today I am a very happy man because when I came out before the governorship election in Bayelsa to say that Timipre Sylva cannot do the job for the second time in Bayelsa because he was not liked by the people and was very unpopular at that time, nobody took me seriously, including the leadership of the party in Bayelsa state at that time. But today, I am happy and I am thanking God that he has shown Nigerians what I knew then.
“It is a total disgrace if our party cannot act or investigate this allegation and just allow it to go under the carpet without taking action on it. Nigerians and the opposition party are waiting to see what we are going to do.
“I call on the state party executive to immediately suspend the former governor from the party, while we should go into investigation because if they don’t suspend him, he is going to stall the investigation”, he said.
