The Presidency has described the controversy surrounding the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) as a “pure scam,” insisting that forged documents were used to create the illusion of a government agency.
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, revealed during an interview on Arise Television that a fake appointment letter exposed the fraud.
He explained that the forged letter carried a telephone number on the State House letterhead, a detail absent from genuine presidential documents.
“On the genuine State House letterhead, there is no contact telephone number. On the purported appointment letter, however, there is one. Anybody who understands how the system works will know this is a pure scam,” Ajayi said.
He stressed that presidential appointments do not originate from the Chief of Staff’s office, but from the President, with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) issuing official letters.
“It is procedurally wrong for anyone to brandish a letter of appointment from the Chief of Staff’s office. That is the first red flag,” he added.
Ajayi did not rule out the possibility of internal collaborators, noting that Adeyemi’s ability to operate inside the Federal Secretariat suggested lapses within government institutions.
Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, accused of masterminding the scheme, is facing an eight-count charge of conspiracy, forgery, and impersonation.
Investigators allege he ran 34 fictitious bank accounts, hosted foreign ambassadors, and secured unauthorized office space using forged documents.
He was arrested in October 2025 after petitions to the DSS and police.Adeyemi has denied wrongdoing, claiming his appointment was genuine and accusing Chief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila of demanding a share of the council’s take-off grant allegations Gbajabiamila strongly denies.
Human rights lawyer Femi Falana has faulted the Presidency for attempting to clear officials without constitutional authority, calling for an independent probe by the ICPC and demanding explanations for the reported ₦24 billion budgeted for the non-existent agency.
The case is scheduled to continue on July 27, 2026, with investigators still probing how Adeyemi allegedly forged documents and infiltrated government structures.
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