Amid ongoing debate over the alleged N400 million bribery scandal surrounding a “fake Federal Government agency”, the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC, a budget analyst, Joseph Oriowo, has stated that the Office of the Chief of Staff to the President has no budgetary authority.
Oriowo spoke in reaction to allegations that President Bola Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, collected N400 million as bribe from one Adeniyi Adeyemi for appointment as Director General of PFIPC. It is also being alleged that PFIPC was captured in the national budget, with reports indicating that over N1 billion was allocated to the agency in the 2026 budget.
It will be recalled that the Presidency had described PFIPC, which has an office at the Federal Secretariat, Abuja, as a fake agency that does not exist.
Speaking on the controversy, Oriowo pointed out what he described as fundamental ignorance of how
