Adeniyi Adeyemi, the director-general of the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC), has asked the house of representatives to issue an administrative clearance to allow him testify in the investigation hearing of the lower chamber.
In a statement released by his legal team on Sunday, Adeyemi, who is currently in custody, said any legislative report on the PFIPC scandal without his testimony is “fundamentally flawed”.
Adeyemi’s legal team is led by Festus Akhigbe, a lawyer.
Last week, some officials of the federal government appeared before the house of representatives ad hoc committee investigating the PFIPC controversy and the N1.3 billion allocated to the council in the 2026 Appropriation Act.
During the committee’s hearing last Wednesday, Tunji Disu, inspector-general of Police (IGP), declined to produce Adeyemi before the ad hoc committee, citing that the self-styled director-general is being held in custody on a court order.
The committee had previously asked asked the IGP to produce Adeyemi
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