One of the accused persons in the failed coup against President Bola Tinubu and the current administration who is the immediate past Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, has dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Sylva, a former Governor of Bayelsa State made his resignation known in an August 31, 2026 letter he transmitted electronically to the APC Ward 4 Chairman in Brass Local Government Area, his home war.
He also copied the National Chairman of the APC, the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Bayelsa State Chairman of the party.
“Having consulted widely with my family, associates, colleagues and sympathisers, I wish to formally tender my resignation from the All Progressives Congress (APC), with immediate effect,” Sylva said.
The former governor who is a founding member of the party, said he quit the APC after an extensive consultation with his family, APC, whose leaders, he alleged, had embraced the philosophy that “all is fair in politics,” adding that the party has abandoned the ideals upon which it was founded.
He said “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.”
He said “the present Government, formed under the banner of the APC we once loved, has disappointed the vast majority of Nigerians. And I can see neither a credible attempt nor any possibility of a revamp.
“I am therefore left with no other choice than to jettison a floundering ship whose fate appears to have been sealed by its irredeemable load of iniquities.”
Sylva expressed confidence that Nigerians would use the next general election to alter the political direction of the country.
