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From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja
Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar has charged President Bola Tinubu to order a comprehensive and independent probe into the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) scandal within seven days.
Atiku, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, said failure to do so would mean that powerful interest in government are allegedly involved in the scandal.
The PFIPC “Director General” Prince Adeyemi Matthew, and Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to the President, have been engaged in a war of words over the existence of the Agency recently.
On Wednesday, Presidential Spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, issued a statement disowning the PFIPC and Adeyemi, and siding with Gbajabiamila. However, the statement by the Presidency has generated more controversy.
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The former vice president maintained that the latest revelation on the PFIPC scandal have moved the issue beyond ordinary forgery allegations into a full-blown crisis of institutional credibility.
Atiku noted that the issue before Nigerians is no longer whether one individual forged documents or impersonated government officials, but “how official government processes allegedly recognised, processed and advanced the affairs of an agency the Presidency insists never existed.”
The ADC presidential candidate, while stating that the official explanation offered by the Presidency does not add up and has left more questions than answers, noted that public records had reportedly shown that the PFIPC was captured in the 2026 Appropriation Act with a budgetary allocation running into billions of naira.
According to him, “if the government wants Nigerians to believe that one man single-handedly created an office for himself, secured office space within a government facility, held meetings with foreign embassy delegations, paid courtesy visits to the EFCC, processed staff salaries through official channels, allegedly operated institutional accounts, and carried on all these activities without the knowledge, approval, negligence or collaboration of anyone within government, then that narrative raises even more troubling questions than it answers.”
