On June 11, Femi Gbajabiamila, chief of staff to President Bola Tinubu, issued a public disclaimer disowning the appointment of Adeniyi Adeyemi as the head of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council.
“It has come to the notice of the Federal Government of
Nigeria and specifically the Office of the Chief of Staff to His Excellency,
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR that a certain Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, under
the auspices of an alleged organisation styled as the ‘Presidential Foreign
Intervention Promotion Council’ is portraying himself to the general public as
having been appointed by my office,” Gbajabiamila said.
The former speaker of the house of representatives said such
an office “does not exist” under Tinubu’s government, and no appointment has
been made in that regard.
He urged foreign missions, development organisations,
financial institutions and the public to disregard claims linking the council
to the presidency.
But speaking at a press conference on Thursday in Abuja,
Adeyemi rejected Gbajabiamila’s claim, describing it as a glaring contradiction
in official government records.
Adeyemi said the council operated accounts with the Central
Bank of Nigeria (CBN), maintained office space at the federal secretariat, and
received approval for more than 300 staff from the Office of the Head of the
Civil Service of the Federation.
According to him, if those records exist, they would be
difficult to reconcile with the presidency’s position that the council has no
legal or administrative existence.
Adeyemi asked Tinubu to constitute an independent
investigative panel to review all official records relating to the council and
examine how it features in government documents.
WHAT THE 2026 APPROPRIATION ACT SHOWS
A review of the 2026 Appropriation Act indicates that the
Presidential Economic Advisory Council/Presidential Foreign Intervention
Promotion Council is expressly listed under the presidency, with a total budget
of N1,302,978,784.
The allocation includes N802,978,783 for personnel costs,
N200,000,001 for overhead expenditure and N300,000,000 for capital projects.
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