The self-acclaimed Director-General of the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, PFIPC, Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, failed to appear in court on Tuesday for his arraignment over alleged certificate forgery.
Adeyemi is billed to take his plea before Justice Mohammed
Umar on an eight-count charge marked FHC/ABJ/CR/562/2025, which relates to
forgery, fraud and impersonation.
However, although the matter is listed as No. 12 on the
court’s cause list, the defendant is nowhere to be seen.
The charge against Adeyemi and two other defendants was
filed on November 27, 2025, by a police prosecutor, Wisdom Madaki.
Witnesses billed to testify in the matter include the Chief
of Staff to the President, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, Paul Emmanuel, Jeremiah
Imoukhede and Ituah Sylvester.
Others are civil servants working in the Office of the
Accountant General of the Federation, OAGF, Akimbo Shola and Adamu Balongu, as
well as a deputy superintendent of police.
Recall that the self-acclaimed Director-General, whose
whereabouts remain unknown, said in an interview on Channels Television on
Monday that his withdrawal from public view was due to alleged threats to his
life.
He also dismissed the insinuation that he was hiding from
law enforcement agencies in a bid to evade investigation into his involvement
in the alleged PFIPC fraud.
Adeyemi equally maintained his allegation that he paid N400
million through a proxy to President Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, Gbajabiamila, to
secure his appointment as DG of the disputed agency.
He claimed that those from whom he borrowed the N400 million
he used to secure the appointment had since dragged him before the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
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