The Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tuesday told the House of Representatives that it ignored three separate letters from the controversial director general of the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC), Adeniyi Adeyemi, over spotted discrepancies.
Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Dr. Dunoma Umar Ahmed, stated this before the Yusuf Gagdi-led Ad hoc committee of the House investigating the circumstances surrounding the existence of the illegal agency.
He recalled that Adeyemi approached the ministry on three different occasions, requesting for the ministry’s collaboration and endorsement to enable him host the World Investment Summit in Nigeria, both in 2025 and 2026.
“Specifically, the ministry received the first, second and third requests on 26th June, 2025, 5th August, 2025, and 5th June, 2026 respectively.
“Guided by extant rules and regulations as well as the necessity of carrying out due diligence before obliging any request, the ministry did not take any action on the requests.
“The ministry’s refusal to oblige the requests was further necessitated by some of the discrepancies observed in the letters submitted by Prince Adeyemi and the ongoing investigation on the legitimacy of the PFIPC and the personality of its alleged director-general,” he stated.
He ended his presentation by saying that: “I wish to respectfully conclude by saying that the ministry has never had any official interaction or engagement with the PFIPC or its alleged director-general.”