The embattled Director-General of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC, Adeniyi Adeyemi, has said he is ready to cooperate fully with the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC.
The ICPC has been tasked with investigating how the “ghost” agency secured a whopping N1.3 billion allocation in the 2026 budget.
This is even as the National Assembly became sharply divided over the matter, yesterday.
While the House of Representatives set up a high-powered ad hoc committee to track how the ‘fictitious’ agency bypassed rigorous checks to secure N1.3 billion in the 2026 Appropriation Act, the Senate blocked an attempt to launch a parallel legislative inquiry, choosing instead to await the outcome of the executive-led anti-graft probe.
The development has triggered fierce political fireworks, with former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, and the African Democratic Congress, ADC, blasting President Tinubu’s directive to the ICPC, arguing that the Presidency cannot act as “judge and jury” in a monumental scandal where its own top officials are deeply entangled.
Speaking from his hideout, during an explosive social media interview with internet personality, VeryDarkMan, Adeyemi stated that he is prepared to turn over vital official documents to security agencies to assist ongoing investigations.
He expressed shock over how an agency the Presidency publicly disowned could find its way into the nation’s legal framework for funding.
“I am willing and ready to help security agencies or any panel set up by Mr. President to unravel the truth. In fact, any moment from now, I will go to the DSS or the police to submit all the documents I have to help them investigate and look into this matter.
‘’They should authenticate them. They should verify them. They should unravel the truth,” Adeyemi said.
