The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has urged former Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Sylva, who is wanted over an alleged $14.86 million fraud, to make himself available for questioning.
EFCC spokesman, Dele Oyewale, made this known on Monday while responding to Sylva’s allegation that the commission had become more of an organ of the All Progressives Congress than a state institution.
“He has been declared wanted; he should make himself available to the commission,” Oyewale said.
Sylva announced his resignation from the APC on Monday, accusing the party of abandoning its founding ideals and the President Bola Tinubu administration of disappointing Nigerians.
In his resignation letter, which was also copied to the EFCC chairman, Sylva alleged that the commission had become increasingly political and warned that his decision to leave the APC could lead to what he described as a renewed “witch-hunt” against him and his associates.
The former governor said he could no longer remain in a party whose leaders, in his view, had embraced the belief that “all is fair in politics.”
The EFCC declared Sylva wanted in November 2025 over an alleged case of conspiracy and dishonest conversion involving $14.86 million.
He has also been linked to an alleged plot against the Tinubu administration. Sylva is listed as a defendant in a 13-count federal charge involving alleged treason, terrorism-related offences, conspiracy and money laundering. He has denied involvement in the alleged plot.
In May 2026, the Federal High Court in Abuja granted an interim forfeiture order covering nine properties allegedly linked to Sylva, following an EFCC application.
Sylva served as Bayelsa governor from 2007 to 2012 and later became Minister of State for Petroleum Resources under former President Muhammadu Buhari.
