PFIPC Boss Hijacked Letter That Could Have Exposed Fake Agency — Accountant-General

The Accountant-General of the Federation, Shamseldeen Ogunjimi, has alleged that Adeniyi Adeyemi, the man accused of operating the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, intercepted an official letter that could have exposed the agency’s alleged fraudulent activities much earlier.

Ogunjimi made the disclosure on Monday while appearing before the House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the controversial establishment of the PFIPC and the ₦1.3bn allocated to the council in the 2026 Appropriation Act.

The committee is probing how an agency the Federal Government has described as non-existent secured budgetary allocations and operated within government structures.

According to Ogunjimi, the Office of the Accountant-General first interacted with the PFIPC in November 2024 after receiving what appeared to be an official request from the State House seeking the creation of an administrative code for the council.

He explained that the request, written on State House letterhead, was processed in good faith because it appeared authentic and was intended to facilitate budgeting, accounting and financial reporting.

The Accountant-General said his office responded to the request on November 29, 2024, and copied the Budget Office of the Federation. However, the response allegedly never reached the State House because it was intercepted by Adeyemi.

“The letter did not get to the State House. It was hijacked by the same man who claimed to be the director-general,” Ogunjimi told lawmakers.

He said that if the State House had received the response, officials would have immediately realised that the original request for an administrative code had not been authorised by the Presidency.

Ogunjimi further alleged that every document submitted by the promoters of the council was forged, including a purported Act of the National Assembly and a letter of appointment presented to treasury officials.

He said the documents were accepted because they appeared to originate from the State House.

The Accountant-General also revealed that two treasury officials working with the council were originally deployed to the Office of the Chief Economic Adviser to the President and that his office only discovered they had been absorbed by the PFIPC after the controversy emerged.

The committee also heard that the council sought to open a Treasury Single Account and two foreign currency accounts with the Central Bank of Nigeria, although the TSA request was rejected and the accounts never became operational.

Lawmakers directed the Inspector-General of Police to produce Adeyemi before the committee on Wednesday for questioning.