The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has urged former Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Sylva, who has been declared wanted over an alleged $14.86m fraud, to make himself available for questioning.
The commission’s spokesman, Dele Oyewale, stated this on Monday while reacting to Sylva’s allegation that the anti-graft agency had conducted itself more as an organ of the All Progressives Congress than as an institution of the state.
“He has been declared wanted; he should make himself available to the commission,” Oyewale said when asked to respond to the allegation.
Sylva, who announced his resignation from the APC on Monday, said he had forwarded a copy of his resignation letter to the EFCC, accusing the commission of acting as an organ of the ruling party.
The former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources also accused the APC of abandoning its founding ideals and said the Tinubu administration had disappointed Nigerians.
The resignation letter, addressed to the APC chairman of Ward 4 in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, was delivered electronically. It was also copied to the national chairman of the APC, the executive chairman of the EFCC and the chairman of the APC in Bayelsa State.
Sylva said his decision to quit the party followed consultations with his family, associates, colleagues and sympathisers.
He said he had no option but to leave what he described as a “floundering ship whose fate appears to have been sealed by its irredeemable load of iniquities.”
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.”
In the resignation letter dated August 31, 2026, and obtained by our correspondents, Sylva said the ideals upon which the APC was founded had been “thoroughly and unrecognisably thwarted.”
He wrote, “As a founding member of the APC, and one who joined other well-meaning Nigerians in building the Party with sweat and money, it is deeply saddening to witness how the ideals we espoused have been so thoroughly and unrecognisably thwarted.
“Moreover, I cannot, in all good conscience, continue to belong to a Party whose leaders believe that ‘all is fair in politics;’ and have consistently demonstrated that belief in practice.
“All cannot be fair in any endeavour of life. The demands of basic decency and morality forbid it. Unfortunately, this mentality appears to underpin virtually every action, and even inaction, of this administration.”
Sylva also criticised the APC-led Federal Government, saying it had failed to meet the expectations of Nigerians.
