The Presidency has claimed President Bola Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, cannot write letters or give appointments.
This was contained in a statement on Wednesday, signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga.
The assertion is in response to claims made by Adeniyi Adeyemi, the director-general of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC, who alleged that Gbajabiamila received N400 million through a proxy and demanded an additional N200 million to secure his appointment.
The allegations come amid a dispute over the agency’s existence after Mr Gbajabiamila, in a June 11 statement, said the PFIPC did not exist under President Bola Tinubu’s administration and that Mr Adeyemi had never been appointed to head it.
But Onanuga’s statement has accused Adeyemi of fraudulently opening a Central Bank of Nigeria account, by misleading the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation.
FULL STATEMENT.
The Matter of Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew and the fictitious Presidential Economic Advisory Council
We are aware of the public interest in the matter of a man called Adeyemi Adeniyi Matthew, who has been parading himself as the director-general of a fictitious Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council cum Presidential Economic Advisory Council.
The office of the Chief of Staff to the President first blew the whistle on the existence of the illegal agency, following complaints from officials of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Council that another government agency appeared to be functioning at cross-purposes with it.
The Chief of Staff, on October 17, in a
