The House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the controversial Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC, has said its preliminary investigation found no evidence that the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, signed the purported appointment letter naming Adeniyi Adeyemi as Director-General of the organisation.
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The committee also said its investigation uncovered approximately 58 bank accounts connected with 12 agencies and entities linked to Adeyemi, while identifying what it described as serious institutional lapses involving the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation and the Budget Office of the Federation.
The preliminary report was released on Wednesday by the committee chairman, Yusuf Adamu Gagdi, following investigations triggered by controversy over the inclusion of the PFIPC in the 2026 Appropriation Bill.
According to the panel, its preliminary findings were based on oral testimony, documentary evidence, financial records and submissions received from several government institutions.
The committee said it found no valid Act of the National Assembly, presidential directive or other lawful instrument establishing the PFIPC as a federal government institution.
It further said evidence received from the State House showed that the Presidency did not appoint Adeyemi as Director-General of the purported council.
Significantly, the committee said it found no evidence establishing that Gbajabiamila signed the appointment letter attributed to him.
“The Committee therefore preliminarily finds that the purported appointment letter was fabricated and falsely attributed to the Presidency,” the report stated.
The panel warned that the alleged creation and deployment of a document purporting to show that either the President or his Chief of Staff had authorised the appointment of an individual to head a non-existent federal institution could not be treated as a mere administrative irregularity.
“Such conduct, if established through the applicable criminal process, would constitute a grave assault on the integrity of the Office of the President and the official identity of the Federal Government,” the committee said.
It added that the matter deserved “the most serious investigative and prosecutorial attention.”
The committee identified 12 entities which it said were connected to Adeyemi. They are the Confederation of United Nations Youths; FCT Investment Promotion Agency and Public-Private Partnership; FCT Investment Promotion Council and Public-Private Partnership; Foreign Investment Promotion Agency; United Nations Youth Global Agency; United Nations Youth Global Foundation; World United Nations Youth Global Foundation; World Entrepreneurship University Limited; World Enterprise University Limited; FCT Investment Promotion Act; FCT Promotion Agency; and Olubadan of Ibadan Foundation.
According to the report, approximately 58 bank accounts were linked to the entities identified during the investigation.
The committee also turned its attention to the manner in which government institutions dealt with PFIPC documents.
It said investigators discovered a purported State House letter dated November 7, 2024, addressed to the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation and requesting the creation or issuance of an administrative code for PFIPC.
The document was said to have been purportedly signed by one Akambi Adewale, but the committee said no person by that name existed in the relevant State House records.
The panel consequently accused the Office of the Accountant-General and the Budget Office of “institutional lapses” in their handling of the purported organisation.
According to the committee, the OAGF acknowledged that its response to the document ought to have been transmitted through a properly authenticated official channel rather than released to Adeyemi.
“The office further acknowledged that the response ought not to have been released to Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi or any other unauthorised person but should have been transmitted through a properly authenticated official channel,” the committee stated.
The panel described it as a serious administrative and security concern that official correspondence addressed to the State House could allegedly have been collected by a person connected to the originating request which investigators now consider forged.
It said investigations were continuing to determine whether the circumstances resulted from negligence, failure to observe basic verification requirements, breach of established correspondence procedures, wilful disregard of due process or deliberate facilitation.
However, the committee stressed that its findings remained preliminary and that no public officer would be prejudged.
“No officer will be condemned without fair hearing. Equally, no proven breach of public duty will be overlooked,” the report stated.
The Budget Office also came under scrutiny over the process through which the purported PFIPC entered the federal budget framework.
The committee said although the Budget Office informed investigators that it had been presented with documents purporting to establish PFIPC as a federal government institution, verifying the legal existence of an organisation was a fundamental requirement before recognising it for budgetary purposes.
The House investigation arose after questions were raised over how an organisation that investigators say had no legal establishment instrument and no valid presidential authorisation was able to interact with federal institutions and appear in the 2026 Appropriation Bill.
The preliminary findings now substantially align on one central point: the committee says it has found no evidence connecting Gbajabiamila to the purported appointment of Adeyemi, while its attention has shifted to the alleged fabrication of official documents, the network of entities and bank accounts linked to Adeyemi, and the administrative failures that allegedly enabled PFIPC to obtain recognition within parts of the federal bureaucracy.
The investigation is continuing, and the committee has made clear that its preliminary findings do not amount to criminal convictions against any individual. Any allegation of forgery, impersonation, facilitation or other criminal wrongdoing would still have to be established through the appropriate investigative and judicial processes.
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