Fresh details have emerged on the operations of the now-disowned Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), with court documents and police investigation reports revealing how the agency functioned for months before the Federal Government declared it illegal and charged its alleged Director-General, Adeniyi Adeyemi, with forgery and impersonation.
The revelations come after the Federal Government distanced itself from the PFIPC, insisting it neither established the agency nor appointed Adeyemi as its Director-General.
Adeyemi has denied the allegations, maintaining that he is innocent and would clear his name in court. He has also accused the Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, Femi Gbajabiamila, of making false allegations against him and engaging in corruption. Gbajabiamila was the first senior government official to publicly disown Adeyemi and the organisation.
The Federal Government has since filed an eight-count charge against Adeyemi before the Federal High Court, accusing him of forgery and impersonation. If convicted, he faces up to 21 years imprisonment without the option of a fine on seven counts, while another count carries a maximum sentence of three years imprisonment or a fine.
According to police investigation reports tendered in court, Adeyemi allegedly forged appointment letters, official approvals and government letterheads, including correspondence used to request the deployment of accountants and auditors from the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF).
Statements made to police by three senior civil servants deployed from the OAGF to the PFIPC have provided new insights into how the organisation operated before it was shut down.
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The officers—Ojo Victor, an Assistant Chief Accountant; Omeh Amarachukwu, an Internal Auditor; and Wakili Saidu, an officer in the audit department—have been listed as prosecution witnesses in the criminal case against Adeyemi.
According to their statements, Adeyemi wrote to the Accountant General of the Federation on April 4, 2025, requesting personnel to fill five vacancies, including Principal Accountant, Accountant I, Principal Auditor, Senior Auditor and Auditor I.
In another letter dated the same day, he also sought the deployment of two officials from the Office of the Chief Economic Adviser to the President, saying the transfers were necessary for proper documentation and record-keeping.
Although it remains unclear when the requests received approval, official records indicate that the OAGF posted the three civil servants to the PFIPC on August 28, 2025.
The officers told investigators they reported to Adeyemi on September 1 with their posting letters and were instructed to resume officially on September 8.
Upon resumption, however, they said they were assigned a shared office but received no formal documentation, orientation or official responsibilities.
Victor told investigators that the three officers occupied the same office without being assigned any duties throughout their stay.
“We were given an open office where the three of us sat without doing anything,” he reportedly stated, adding that he found the situation unusual because he was never documented or assigned a work schedule.
Saidu similarly stated that there was virtually no interaction between him and the alleged Director-General after resumption.
“Since then, there has been no correspondence between me and the DG,” he reportedly told investigators.
Amarachukwu also disclosed that the lack of work forced him to reduce his attendance to once a week.
“I only go to work once in a week because there was nothing for us to do since we were posted there,” he reportedly said.
Victor added that he attended the office only once or twice weekly merely to maintain a physical presence, while Saidu said he reported three times a week despite having no official assignments.
The three civil servants also told investigators they had never heard of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council before receiving their deployment letters.
Saidu said he first became aware of the organisation after seeing his posting, while Victor similarly stated that he only learned of the agency when the deployment list was released on August 28, 2025.
The testimonies form part of the evidence prosecutors intend to rely on in the ongoing trial of Adeyemi, as the Federal Government seeks to establish that the PFIPC operated without legal backing and that its alleged leadership relied on forged documents to obtain recognition and government personnel.
aThe case is expected to further shed light on how the controversial agency functioned before it was formally disowned by the Presidency and dismantled by the authorities.