By Godwin Orozo,
The House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the phantom Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) has cleared Femi Gbajabiamila, chief of staff to the president, of signing the appointment letter that installed Adeniyi Adeyemi as the council’s director-general, while uncovering a sprawling web of 58 bank accounts and 12 linked agencies traced to Adeyemi.
The committee, chaired by Yusuf Adamu Gagdi, released its preliminary report on Wednesday, following weeks of hearings triggered by the controversy over PFIPC’s inclusion in the 2026 appropriation bill.
According to the report, no act of the National Assembly or presidential order ever established the PFIPC, and evidence from the State House showed the presidency never appointed Adeyemi to head it. The panel said it found no proof that Gbajabiamila signed Adeyemi’s appointment letter.
“The Committee therefore preliminarily finds that the purported appointment letter was fabricated and falsely attributed to the Presidency,” the report stated, adding that the conduct, “if established through the applicable criminal process, would constitute a grave assault on the integrity of the Office of the President.”
The committee said the fabricated appointment “cannot be treated as a mere administrative irregularity” and called it “a matter deserving the most serious investigative and prosecutorial attention.”
Investigators traced 12 entities to Adeyemi, including the Confederation of United Nations Youths, the FCT Investment Promotion Agency and Public-Private Partnership, the FCT Investment Promotion Council and Public-Private Partnership, the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency, the United Nations Youth Global Agency, the United Nations Youth Global Foundation, the World United Nations Youth Global Foundation, World Entrepreneurship University Limited, World Enterprise University Limited, the FCT Investment Promotion Act, the FCT Promotion Agency, and the Olubadan of Ibadan Foundation. Roughly 58 bank accounts were linked to these entities.
The panel also uncovered a forged letter dated November 7, 2024, purportedly from the State House to the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF), requesting an administrative code for the PFIPC. The letter carried the signature of one Akambi Adewale, a name the committee said does not exist in State House records.
The committee accused the OAGF and the Budget Office of the federation of “institutional lapses” in handling the matter. It noted that the OAGF confirmed its response to the forged letter should have gone through “a properly authenticated official channel” rather than being handed directly to Adeyemi.
“The committee considers it a serious administrative and security lapse that official correspondence addressed to the State House could allegedly have been collected by a person connected with the forged originating request,” the report noted, adding that it is probing whether the breach stemmed from negligence, failure to observe verification procedures, or deliberate facilitation.
“No officer will be condemned without fair hearing. Equally, no proven breach of public duty will be overlooked,” the committee said.
On the Budget Office’s role, the report noted that while the agency was presented with documents purporting to establish PFIPC as a federal institution, verifying the legal existence of any such institution remains “a fundamental prerequisite to its recognition within the Federal Budget Framework.”
