The House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the purported Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) has found no evidence linking President Bola Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, to the establishment or operations of the organisation.
The committee’s Chairman, Rep. Yusuf Gagdi, said in a preliminary report that Gbajabiamila neither authorised nor approved the purported agency. The panel also found that a letter allegedly appointing Adeniyi Adeyemi as its Director-General was fabricated and falsely attributed to the Chief of Staff.
Gagdi said evidence showed that Gbajabiamila acted within a day of receiving an alert from the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission over suspected fraudulent activities. He subsequently contacted security and investigative agencies, including the Police, DSS, EFCC and Office of the National Security Adviser, to investigate the matter.
The committee also found that PFIPC was not created by any valid Act of the National Assembly, executive order or other lawful instrument, and uncovered alleged forgeries involving presidential correspondence, an executive order and a document presented as an Act of Parliament.
The panel recommended further investigation into alleged financial transactions linked to the organisation, stressing that its findings remain preliminary and do not constitute the final decision of the House.
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