…Insists controversy belongs to Presidency, says lawmakers won’t investigate without petition
The Senate on Tuesday sought to distance the National Assembly from the deepening controversy surrounding the disputed Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), insisting that lawmakers neither created nor inserted the agency into the 2026 Appropriation Act despite its controversial appearance in the federal budget.
Instead, the upper chamber said responsibility for explaining how the agency found its way into the national budget rests squarely with the Executive, describing the matter as an internal dispute within the Presidency that falls outside the Senate’s immediate legislative remit.
The position marks the first official response by the National Assembly since the controversy erupted, with the Presidency and the council’s purported Director-General trading allegations over the existence of the agency and the circumstances surrounding its budgetary allocation.
Speaking with journalists after Tuesday’s plenary, Yemi Adaramodu, Senate spokesman, said the Senate would not
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