T he Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Shamseldeen Ogunjimi, on Monday told the House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) that the council’s self-acclaimed Director-General, Adeniyi Adeyemi, intercepted a letter that could have exposed the alleged forgery of documents used by the organisation.
Ogunjimi made the disclosure while appearing before the committee probing the PFIPC controversy and the N1.3 billion allocated to the council in the 2026 Appropriation Act.
Adeyemi had claimed that the Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, Femi Gbajabiamila, issued his appointment letter as PFIPC Director-General, an allegation Gbajabiamila denied.
Adeyemi was arrested by operatives of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) in Osun State on July 14.
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The AGF said the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF) first received a request in November 2024, purportedly from the State House, seeking the creation of an administrative code for the council to facilitate budgeting, accounting and financial reporting.
He said the request, written on State House letterhead, appeared genuine, prompting the treasury to create the code and respond to the State House on November 29, 2024, with a copy sent to the Budget Office of the Federation.
However, Ogunjimi alleged that the response never reached the State House because it was intercepted by Adeyemi.
He said, “The letter that was written to the treasury for us to give an administrative code was responded to.
“Unfortunately, as events unfolded, it was discovered that that letter did not get to the State House. It was hijacked, precisely by the same man who claimed to be the director-general.
“Because if our letter responding to the request of the State House that an administrative code should be issued had gotten to the State House, definitely the State House would have noticed that the letter requesting an administrative code was never issued by the State House.”
Ogunjimi said the OAGF later discovered that all documents submitted by the promoters of the council were allegedly forged.
“What the fake agency did was to submit a fake Act — so we can call it fake now because we have seen it to be fake — purportedly enacted by the National Assembly, a fake letter of appointment; everything that was submitted to the leadership in treasury was fake,” he said.
He explained that treasury officials processed the request in good faith because it appeared to have originated from the Presidency.
On the deployment of staff to the council, Ogunjimi said two treasury officials working with the PFIPC had originally been posted to the Office of the Chief Economic Adviser to the President in 2010 and 2013.
“We never knew. We believed, based on the records available to the Treasury, that those officers were still with the Office of the Chief Economic Adviser to the President.
“It was when all this matter came to light that we got to know that two of our staff were actually working or had been absorbed by the fake agency,” he added.
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Meanwhile, the House committee has directed the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) to produce Adeyemi before it on Wednesday.
Chairman of the committee, Rep. Yusuf Gagdi (APC, Plateau), said Adeyemi’s appearance was necessary because of the serious allegations against him and the institutions allegedly affected.
Assistant Commissioner of Police Bashir Abdullahi, who represented the IGP, told the committee that the police had already filed an eight-count charge against Adeyemi before a Federal High Court.
He, however, cautioned against disclosures that could prejudice the ongoing investigation and judicial proceedings.
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