By Oluwakemi Kindness
The House of Representatives says the purported Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) was never legally established by the Nigerian government.
An Ad Hoc Committee investigating the organisation in it prelimentary report on Wednsday said it uncovered substantial evidence of forged, altered and misleading documents allegedly used to make PFIPC appear to be a legitimate federal agency.
The committee, chaired by Yusuf Adamu Gagdi, said it found no valid Act, gazetted law, Presidential Executive Order or other lawful instrument establishing PFIPC.
Instead, it said the organisation relied on documents that falsely attributed government authority to it.
Fake appointment, Executive Order
The committee said a purported appointment letter naming Adeniyi Adeyemi as PFIPC’s Director-General was fabricated.
It said the State House confirmed that the appointment did not come from the Presidency and that Chief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila neither issued nor signed the letter.
A purported Presidential Executive Order No. 5, dated February 24, 2026, was also found to be unauthentic, according to the committee.
The panel further said a purported National Assembly Act establishing PFIPC was never passed by both chambers, assented to by the President or gazetted.
Parts of another legislative instrument, it said, appeared to have been electronically altered to create the impression that Parliament had established the organisation.
₦400m payment under investigation
The committee is also investigating an alleged ₦400 million payment linked to the purported organisation.
It said a company claimed to have paid the money in four instalments after being promised a government-related renovation and furnishing contract.
Representatives of the company were allegedly taken to a property in Abuja and told it was an official residence allocated to Adeyemi as PFIPC’s Director-General.
The committee said it is tracing the payments, beneficiaries and ownership of the property.
It is also investigating about 39 people who were represented as PFIPC employees to determine who may have been deceived and who knowingly participated.
