In the spirit of accountability, #FixPolitics Initiative has called on the Federal Government to fully disclose what it knows about the scandalous Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), which the Presidency has declared a fictitious government agency.

Executive Director, #FixPolitics Africa, Anthony Ubani, in a statement, urged the government to, among other things, establish and publish a single, authoritative digital register of all federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), as well as councils and presidential bodies to ensure accountability.

According to information already in the public domain, the organisation operated from an office within the Federal Secretariat, received a federal budget code and self-accounting status, secured accounts with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), recruited personnel, corresponded with government institutions and interacted with senior public officials.

Most troubling is that approximately N1.3bn was allocated to it in the 2026 Appropriation Act, despite the absence of any law or valid executive instrument establishing the organisation.

The Presidency alleges that Mr Adeniyi Adeyemi forged official documents, impersonated a government appointee and misled several public institutions, allegations the suspect denied while making serious accusations against senior government officials.

According to #FixPolitics, these competing claims are now the subject of criminal proceedings and official investigations.

The statement reads, “All parties must therefore be presumed innocent until proven otherwise, and every allegation must be tested through an independent and transparent process, including our courts.

“However, the prosecution of one individual cannot answer the larger institutional questions raised by this scandal.”

A fictitious agency, the initiative noted, does not allocate office space to itself. “It does not issue itself a budget code, grant itself self-accounting status, open government bank accounts, obtain an official government domain, receive personnel or insert itself into a national budget. Each of these steps required an official decision, signature, verification, approval or failure to act.”

This, according to the group, therefore, is not merely an alleged case of impersonation; it represents a serious breakdown in governmental coordination, record-keeping, financial controls, budget scrutiny, institutional competence and public accountability.

“It is particularly alarming that questions about the organisation’s legitimacy had reportedly arisen by October 2025, leading to Adeyemi’s arrest and the filing of criminal charges in November 2025, yet the disputed entity subsequently appeared in the 2026 Appropriation Act. Nigerians deserve to know who submitted the budget request, who reviewed it, who approved it and why existing government records and warnings failed to prevent its inclusion,” #FixPolitics asserted, while welcoming President Bola Tinubu’s directive for the ICPC to investigate the matter within 30 days.

It also hailed the House of Representatives’ decision to investigate the budgetary and administrative failures involved. “These investigations must not become closed-door exercises whose findings are quietly submitted, buried or selectively released.

#FixPolitics also demanded, “All physical and electronic records connected to PFIPC must be secured against deletion, alteration, destruction, backdating or disappearance. This must include official correspondence, emails, file-movement registers, budget submissions, approval memoranda, meeting records, visitor logs, building-access records, domain-registration records, personnel deployment documents, bank-account applications, Know Your Customer (KYC) documentation, payment instructions and relevant telephone and digital communication records obtained in accordance with the law.

“Nigerians should be told which officials and institutions processed the requests for office space, budget codes, self-accounting status, bank accounts, personnel, government domain registration and budgetary allocation. The names and official designations of the approving authorities, together with the documents upon which they relied, should form part of the public investigation report.”

Nigerians, the initiative emphasised, are entitled to the full truth: who approved what, on the strength of which documents, at what time, and with what consequences.

“There must be no scapegoats, no sacred cows and no cover-up. Anyone found to have acted negligently, fraudulently or in collusion with others must be held accountable, regardless of rank or political affiliation.

“Public institutions exist on the strength of citizens’ trust. That trust can only be rebuilt through truth, transparency, institutional reform and consequences,” it added.

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