The Senate on Tuesday said the ₦1.3 billion appropriated for the non-existent Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) in the 2026 budget was ”neither recommended nor inserted” by the National Assembly.
The upper chamber said lawmakers are not constitutionally responsible for conducting security checks on individuals appointed to head government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), and therefore cannot be held responsible for the controversy.
The Senate spokesperson, Yemi Adaramodu, made the clarification while briefing journalists in his office at the National Assembly shortly after plenary.
“The budget line being referred to, was not created or inserted by the National Assembly
