₦airaland Forum

PRESS STATEMENT

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday took to social media to announce, quite unceremoniously, that it had declared Chief Timipre Sylva wanted. No formal communication was extended to him, no established protocol observed—only a sudden digital proclamation designed, it would seem, to inflame public sentiment and manufacture yet another episode of orchestrated hostility.

It is, to say the least, curious that what was once whispered in corridors as a “coup matter” has now quietly metamorphosed into a financial allegation. The same shadowy forces that once sought to criminalise Sylva politically now appear to have reinvented themselves as fiscal crusaders. There must, undoubtedly, be an explanation for this cinematic transition—from rumour to reinvention, from one carefully scripted accusation to another.

Chief Timipre Sylva remains, without equivocation, the target of a coordinated and calculated political onslaught. His recent travails bear an uncanny resemblance to the trials of Job in Holy Scripture—each ordeal arriving with near-mathematical precision, each accusation discredited only for another to appear. These are no coincidences; they are the deliberate machinations of those who dread Sylva’s enduring political relevance and moral resolve.

For clarity, I have not been in direct communication with Chief Sylva. However, from available information and from prior official briefings, it is important to restate that Chief Sylva will, in line with his respect for lawful institutions and due process, honour the invitation of the EFCC once he concludes his ongoing medical check-up in the United Kingdom.

At this stage, one might jest that only the Boys’ Brigade of Nigeria and the Man’O’War remain uninvited to this theatre of persecution. The desperation to sully Sylva’s name knows no restraint—its sponsors are zealous, its intentions transparent, and its malice unmistakable. Yet, let it be categorically stated: Chief Timipre Sylva has clean hands. He has not diverted a single dollar, nor has he betrayed the trust reposed in him by the Nigerian people. The refinery project in question is a legitimate, transparent, and verifiable undertaking—subject to due process and traceable documentation.

To our friends, allies, and well-wishers: this, too, shall pass. Truth, though often delayed, remains immutable. It neither bows to propaganda nor perishes in the tumult of falsehood. Those engineering this relentless campaign of defamation will not prevail—for light, by its very nature, must always outshine darkness.

Julius Bokoru

Special Assistant on Media and Public Affairs
to Chief Timipre Sylva

10 November 2025

Jakarta:
You wrote a dictionary here, what is stopping your principal from visiting the EFCC if his hands are clean? Motor dey, money for flight dey, Oya honour EFCC invitation you begin do dictionary rap.

dubaino:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17jANEVmWJ/

Eminent2025:
Oga go and answer EFCC stop playing the victim card, we are no longer buying this bullshit. If he has no skeleton in his cupboard why is he hiding in UK?

Millions of people are un-employ, some places has no good road, some no good health facilities.

Civil servants are paid peanuts

Yet these politicians who had looted the country dry will come and cry for us and shout persecution when they are call to account. Many people has fracture hands,leg and some die due to bad road. Some die because they could not get a good health treatment as he is getting in another man's country.

When these thieves are called to make account they start shouting persecution . What of the persecution u made millions face due to looting of state and national treasure

Is it not persecution of the masses when u loot the treasury?

Go and explain to EFCC how u spent the money Sir

PigTormentor:
Did the government accuse him of coup? You are talking based on beer palour rumors from Sahara TRASH reporters.

Justiceleague1:
bro honestly you should do away with all this petty politics and tribalism and think seriously about your life.....

Justiceleague1:
bro honestly you should do away with all this petty politics and tribalism and think seriously about your life.....