) in Bayelsa state and former minister of state for petroleum resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, has expressed his discontent with the judgment of the Bayelsa Governorship Election Tribunal on Monday, May 27.
Rising from the meeting, the former Governor of Bayelsa state instructed his legal team to promptly pursue justice at the Court of Appeal. He had subsequently filed an interlocutory appeal seeking the dissolution of the panel and the formation of a new one.Sylva said: “We are not satisfied with the decision of the tribunal. But this is just a court of first instance and after meeting with the elders and critical stakeholders of our great party, the APC, we directed our legal team to seek justice for Bayelsa at the Supreme Court.”
He declared that the liberation of Bayelsa was close and that justice was inevitable for the traumatized people of the state, appealing to them to remain positive, law-abiding and steadfast.