It appears a moment of storm for the President Bola Tinubu administration as it battles the controversy surrounding the alleged Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC, an agency the presidency insists never existed.
This is even as the man, Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, who claims he was appointed to head the council, said he is ready to submit himself and all documents in his possession to the Department of State Services or the Nigeria Police Force to aid investigations into the controversy surrounding the agency.
Adeyemi questioned how the agency was captured in the national budget despite the Presidency’s insistence that it never existed.
He spoke in a chat with social media activist, Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, claiming that he was in police detention during the period the budget was being prepared and therefore could not have participated in the budget defence process.
The development comes even as the President on Tuesday directed the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, to conduct a thorough investigation into the activities of PFIPC and all related matters.
Tinubu also ordered that the investigation be concluded and a comprehensive report submitted to him within 30 days.
Presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, disclosed this in a statement, saying the directive follows the discovery of the fictitious PFIPC, which was never established by the Federal Government of Nigeria and has no basis in any law, presidential instrument, executive approval, or other lawful act of Government.
“One Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew presented himself as the
