Former Petroleum Minister, Timipre Marlin John Sylva, who is under investigations for plotting a Military coup to topple the Government of President Bola Tinubu, fled Nigeria to Senegal from where he is to go into hiding in Argentina, a South American country.
Insiders said the former Minister fled through the creeks immediately he got wind that the coup plot had leaked.
Sylva allegedly has several businesses in Senegal and Argentina and was lobbying to be made Nigerian Ambassador to Argentina.
Highly placed sources told me that the first military officer arrested in connection with the coup plot wasted no time in naming Sylva as the arrowhead and financier of the coup plot.
The source also confirmed that about N46billion was traced to an account linked to the former Petroleum Minister.
The Abuja home of the former Minister was raided by officials from the Defence Intelligence Agency, DIA. His brother, Paga, was picked up during the raid. This was after his Bayelsa residence had earlier been raided where incriminating evidence were allegedly found including cash in foreign denominations.
Sylva is alleged to have provided fundings for the coup operation.
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