PFIPC: Adeyemi vows to hand documents to DSS

Adeniyi Adeyemi, who claims to be the Director-General of the controversial Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), has said he will cooperate with ongoing investigations into the agency and submit documents in his possession to security agencies.

Adeyemi made the disclosure on Tuesday during an Instagram interview with social media personality Martins Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, shortly after President Bola Tinubu directed the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to investigate the activities of the purported council.

He said he was prepared to assist the investigation by handing over documents to the Department of State Services (DSS) or the police for verification.

“I am ready to cooperate with any security agency or investigative panel set up by Mr President. I will submit all the documents I have to the DSS or the police so they can authenticate them and establish the truth,” he said.

Adeyemi questioned the Presidency’s insistence that the PFIPC never existed, arguing that the council’s inclusion in the 2026 Appropriation Act raised questions that deserved independent investigation.

According to him, he could not have influenced the budget process because he was in detention while the appropriation bill was being prepared.

“I was in detention for 23 days during the period the budget was being prepared. I neither prepared nor defended any budget, so I do not understand how the agency appeared in the national budget if it never existed,” he said.

Speaking on his earlier allegations involving the President’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, Adeyemi refrained from making further accusations, saying only an impartial investigation could determine what transpired.

He also claimed he survived an attack by unidentified gunmen near Zuma Rock in September 2025 and maintained that his involvement with the council was driven by a desire to attract foreign investment into Nigeria.

“The vision was to make Nigeria a preferred destination for foreign investment. That has always been my intention,” he added.

President Tinubu had earlier directed the ICPC to investigate the alleged PFIPC, including claims of forged appointment letters, fraudulent government documents, efforts to obtain official recognition and diplomatic support, as well as the opening of bank accounts in the names of purported government agencies.

The controversy intensified after reports that the council allegedly operated from the Federal Secretariat and was allocated ₦1.3 billion in the 2026 Appropriation Act, despite the Presidency maintaining that no such agency was ever established by the Federal Government.