The House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee investigating the activities of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) has directed the Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, to produce the self-acclaimed Director-General of the disputed agency, Adeniyi Adeyemi, before the panel.
The committee ordered that Adeyemi appear before it on July 29, 2026, at noon, as its probe into the controversial agency continues.
The directive came on Monday as the Accountant-General of the Federation, Shamseldeen Ogunjimi, disclosed that his office rejected the PFIPC’s request to open a Treasury Single Account (TSA), citing the failure to complete the required due diligence.
Appearing before the committee, Ogunjimi said the council applied for a TSA account but the request was declined because it had not met established compliance requirements.
“The request was received, but due diligence had not been completed. Consequently, the account was not opened,” he told the lawmakers.
The controversy surrounding the PFIPC erupted after Adeyemi alleged during a press conference that the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, demanded 48 percent of the agency’s proposed ₦27.3 billion take-off grant.
Adeyemi also alleged that Gbajabiamila received ₦400 million through a proxy and demanded an additional ₦200 million to facilitate presidential approvals.
Gbajabiamila has denied all the allegations in a sworn statement, insisting he has no personal, official or professional relationship with Adeyemi.
He also denied demanding or receiving money, abusing his office, interfering with law enforcement agencies, having any connection to the death of Babatunde Tanimola—whom Adeyemi claimed acted as an intermediary—or involvement in an alleged assassination attempt or obstruction of investigations.
Following the allegations, President Bola Tinubu directed the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to investigate the matter.
Gbajabiamila has also filed a ₦15 billion defamation suit against Adeyemi at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
The suit seeks ₦10 billion in general damages, ₦5 billion in aggravated damages, ₦200 million in litigation costs, and an order compelling Adeyemi to publish a retraction and apology in five national newspapers and across all social media platforms where the allegations were circulated.
The House of Representatives subsequently constituted a 12-member ad hoc committee to investigate the circumstances surrounding the establishment of the PFIPC, its inclusion in the 2026 Appropriation Act and the alleged allocation of ₦1.3 billion to the agency.
The committee, chaired by Yusuf Gagdi, has since heard from several top government officials as part of its investigation.
Last week, the ICPC confirmed it had questioned Gbajabiamila over the allegations.
The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Esther Walson-Jack, told the committee that her office neither allocated office space at the Federal Secretariat in Abuja to the PFIPC nor deployed any civil servants to the council.
She said although a request for staff deployment was received, no officers were assigned to the agency.
Similarly, Director-General of the Budget Office, Tanimu Yakubu, informed the committee that none of the funds appropriated for the PFIPC had been released or spent.
According to Yakubu, although the National Assembly approved funding for the council, the statutory conditions required for releasing or spending the money were never fulfilled.
“Not one kobo of the personnel provision could lawfully have been drawn, and not one kobo was drawn. The overhead provision never matured into a lawful cash release, while the capital provision never matured into procurement or expenditure because the conditions required for spending were not met,” he said.
