Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, who claims to be the Director-General of the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, PFIPC, has questioned how the agency was captured in the national budget despite the Presidency’s insistence that it never existed.
Speaking in a chat with social media activist, Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, Adeyemi said he was in police detention during the period the budget was being prepared and therefore could not have participated in the budget defence process.
According to him, he was invited by the Nigeria Police Force on October 27 over a petition allegedly filed by the President’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, questioning the activities of the PFIPC.
Adeyemi said he honoured the invitation and was interrogated about the agency, his appointment letter and those who facilitated his appointment.
He claimed he remained in detention for 23 days, from October 27 to November 19, before being charged to court on November 27.
According to him, the agency’s office had already been reallocated to another government official by the time he regained his freedom, and he has not returned to the office since his arrest.
Adeyemi said the circumstances surrounding the inclusion of the PFIPC in the national budget remain puzzling, insisting that neither he nor anyone else defended the agency’s budget before the National Assembly.
He questioned how lawmakers and other relevant authorities failed to detect what the Presidency now describes as a non-existent agency before the budget was passed and signed into law.
On the claims by Gbajabiamila that the agency never existed,
