Bayelsa Verdict: The Odilis Are My Role Models, I Can’t Attack Them – Sylva
The Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, has distanced himself from a recent attack on the Abuja residence of Justice Mary Odili of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
Some suspected members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were said to have attacked Odili’s residence after she led a five-man panel that delivered a judgement that sacked the candidate of the APC, David Lyon, as the governor-elect of Bayelsa State.
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THE WHISTLER had reported that the Rivers State government recently held an executive council meeting where it warned that it would hold Sylva and the APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, responsible should any harm befall the family of the Supreme Court judge.
The Rivers government said it was warning, “the Minister of State for Petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylva and the National Chairman of APC, Adams Oshiomhole and their hired agents to desist from the sponsorship of violent attacks against Dr Peter Odili and members of his family.”
Reacting to the warning, Sylva, on Saturday, February 22, 2020, took to his Twitter account to distance himself from the attack, while also slamming the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, over the allegation levelled against him.
The minister also said he held the Odilis as his role models and would not imagine himself sponsoring attacks against them.
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“There is no truth in that strange and weighty claim,” said Sylva.
“Governor Wike should know in what high esteem I hold (former) Governor Peter and Justice Odili whom I have known and worked with long before Governor Wike came into the picture.
“It will not occur to me, under any circumstance, to malign the person and image of people I hold up as role models,” said the minister.
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