The Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Shamseldeen Ogunjimi, has told the House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) that the council’s self-proclaimed Director-General, Adeniyi Adeyemi, intercepted an official letter that could have uncovered the alleged forgery of documents used to establish the organisation.
Ogunjimi made the revelation on Monday while appearing before the committee probing the controversy surrounding the PFIPC and the N1.3 billion appropriated to the council in the 2026 budget.
According to the AGF, the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF) received a request in November 2024, purportedly from the State House, seeking the creation of an administrative code for the PFIPC to facilitate budgeting, accounting and financial reporting.
Believing the request to be genuine because it was written on State House letterhead, the Treasury processed the application, created the administrative code, and sent its response to the State House on November 29, 2024, with a copy forwarded to the Budget Office of the Federation.
However, Ogunjimi alleged that the response never reached the State House because it was intercepted by Adeyemi.
“The letter requesting us to create an administrative code was responded to. Unfortunately, it was later discovered that our response never got to the State House. It was hijacked by the same individual who claimed to be the Director-General,” Ogunjimi told the committee.
He explained that if the letter had reached the State House, officials there would have immediately realized that the original request had not been issued by the Presidency, exposing the alleged forgery much earlier.
The Accountant-General further disclosed that investigations later revealed that all the documents submitted by the promoters of the PFIPC were allegedly forged.
“What the fake agency submitted included a fake Act purportedly passed by the National Assembly, a fake appointment letter and other forged documents. Everything presented to the Treasury leadership was fake,” he said.
Ogunjimi noted that Treasury officials processed the documents in good faith because they appeared to have originated from the Presidency.
Addressing the deployment of government officials to the council, he explained that two Treasury officers working with the PFIPC had originally been posted to the Office of the Chief Economic Adviser to the President in 2010 and 2013.
“We believed, based on Treasury records, that those officers were still serving with the Office of the Chief Economic Adviser. It was only after this matter came to light that we discovered they had been working with the fake agency,” he added.
The controversy surrounding the PFIPC deepened after Adeyemi claimed that the Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, Femi Gbajabiamila, appointed him as the council’s Director-General, a claim Gbajabiamila has denied.
Adeyemi was arrested by operatives of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) in Osun State on July 14 as investigations into the matter continue.
