Nigeria State Petroleum Resources Minister Resigns
By Obafemi Oredein
Special to Dow Jones Newswires
IBADAN, Nigeria--Nigeria's Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, has resigned, a government spokesman said on Twitter on Friday.
Mr. Sylva, the former governor of the Nigerian state of Bayelsa from 2008 to 2012, "resigned his appointment to contest in the next Bayelsa governorship election," Bashir Ahmad, a spokesman for Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, said. The Bayelsa governorship election is scheduled to be held in November.
Bayelsa is one of the major oil producing areas in Nigeria's Niger Delta region.
Mr. Sylva was appointed minister of state for petroleum resources in August 2019. Mr. Buhari holds the substantive post of minister of petroleum resources.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
March 31, 2023 15:02 ET (19:02 GMT)
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