Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Timi Frank, has petitioned the Department
of State Services, DSS, alleging that the former Minister of State for
Petroleum, Timipreye Sylva, forged his certificate.
The petition, which was addressed to the Director General of
the Department of State Services, was copied to the National Assembly and asked
that Sylva be investigated in the national interest.
In a statement he sent to Abuja on Wednesday,
Frank alleged that the former Governor of Bayelsa State, currently the Bayelsa
governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the coming
November election, was also involved in identity theft.
The revelation, according to him, was contained in the
petition raised by his solicitors.
In the petition, dated March 31, 2023, and signed by the
Principal Partner of Graylaw Practice LP, Edward Omaga Esq., Frank urged the
National Assembly to summon Sylva and officials from his alma maters in Nigeria
and Switzerland to explain the inconsistencies in the identity of the
politician.
He said: “Sylva’s primary school certificate carried his
name as Anagha Timipere as evident in documents the ex-Minister filed before a
court in the United States as part of an ongoing defamation suit brought by his
lawyers.
“Anagha Timipere was different from Marlin Anagha Timipre,
which is the name on Sylva’s WAEC certificate.
“The ex-petroleum minister had also obtained his bachelor’s
degree in English from the University of Port-Harcourt, with the certificate
bearing Anagha Timipre Marlin.”
The petitioner further explained that Sylva’s doctoral
degree in International Relations, which he claimed to have obtained from Ubis
University, Switzerland, bears Chief Timi Sylva.
He said Sylva did not participate in the mandatory National
Youth Service Corps, NYSC, scheme and did not obtain an exemption certificate
as required by law.
The petition reads in part: “Obviously, the certificates
mentioned above have visible anomalies and do not depict the true identity of
CHIEF TIMPRE SYLVA. It is confusing as to who CHIEF TIMIPRE SYLVA is; who
ANAGHA TIMIPRE MARLIN is; who MARLIN ANAGHA TIMIPRE is and who ANAGHA TIMIPERE
is.
“There is no evidence anywhere showing that CHIEF TIMPRE
SYLVA ever changed his name from ANAGHA TIMIPRE MARLIN to TIMIPRE SYLVA in 1986
after he purportedly graduated from University of Port Harcourt.”
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