The media aide to former Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Timipre Sylva, Julius Bokoru, has reacted to the discover declaring his principal needed by the {Economic} and {Financial} Crimes Fee (EFCC).
Bokoru stated the previous Minister of State for Petroleum Assets would honour the EFCC invitation as soon as he completes his ongoing medical check-up in the UK.
The EFCC had, on Monday, declared Sylva needed over alleged conspiracy and dishonest conversion of $14,859,257.
Based on the anti-graft company, the funds had been linked to a transaction involving the Nigerian Content material Growth and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and Atlantic Worldwide Refinery and Petrochemical Restricted.
Reacting via an announcement, Bokoru faulted the EFCC’s method, accusing the company of bypassing commonplace process.
“No formal communication was prolonged to him, no established protocol noticed—solely a sudden digital proclamation designed, it could appear, to inflame public sentiment and manufacture yet one more episode of orchestrated hostility,” he acknowledged.
He additional clarified that Sylva stays dedicated to due course of and can cooperate with the EFCC as soon as his well being checks are accomplished.
“Chief Sylva will, according to his respect for lawful establishments and due course of, honour the invitation of the EFCC as soon as he concludes his ongoing medical check-up in the UK,” Bokoru stated.
POLITICS NIGERIA studies that the EFCC obtained a warrant for Sylva’s arrest from the Federal Excessive Courtroom in Lagos on November 6, 2025.
This adopted weeks of hypothesis after troopers reportedly stormed the ex-minister’s residence in Abuja over alleged hyperlinks to a coup plot being investigated by the Defence Intelligence Company (DIA).
The raid, stated to have taken place within the early hours of October 25, 2025, was allegedly primarily based on intelligence studies claiming Sylva had been assembly with detained navy officers accused of plotting to overthrow President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
Bokoru dismissed the claims, insisting the event was a part of a wider try and tarnish the previous governor’s popularity.
“These are not any coincidences; they’re the deliberate machinations of those that dread Sylva’s enduring political relevance and ethical resolve,” he stated.
He additionally questioned the sudden shift from alleged coup hyperlinks to {financial} allegations. “It’s, to say the least, curious that what was as soon as whispered in corridors as a ‘coup matter’ has now quietly metamorphosed right into a {financial} allegation,” Bokoru added.