The Presidency has vowed to identify and prosecute government insiders who allegedly enabled Prince Adeniyi Mathew to operate a fictitious presidential agency for months without detection.
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, described Adeniyi as an “irredeemable con artist” exploiting Nigeria’s public sensitivity to corruption to shield himself from accountability.
Ajayi said investigators from the Department of State Services (DSS), the Police, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have been tasked with dismantling what he called a “criminal network” embedded within federal institutions.
According to Ajayi, Adeniyi forged presidential appointment letters, maintained 34 bank accounts in the names of fake agencies, hosted foreign ambassadors, and even opened a Central Bank account while parading himself as Director-General of the non-existent Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC).
Ajayi stressed that internal collaborators were key to Adeniyi’s success, noting: “The criminal network within the affected institutions must be dismantled,
