Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, Femi Gbajabiamila, has denied meeting with Adeniyi Adeyemi, self-styled Director-General of the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC).
Adeyemi had leveled allegations of murder and bribery against the Chief of Staff at a press conference last month.
He had accused Gbajabiamila of demanding a share of the council’s alleged take-off grant, receiving money through proxies, abusing his office and participating in a criminal cover-up.
Adeyemi also said he fell out with Gbajabiamila after paying an upfront of N200 million to secure the job, alleging that a balance of N200 million was being expected.
But in a cease-and-desist letter, which Kemi Pinheiro, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), issued on his behalf, Gbajabiamila demanded that Adeyemi take down all materials, including transcripts, videos and recordings, from all platforms, publish a full retraction and apology in at least five national newspapers and across all social media platforms through which the press conference was disseminated, and provide a written undertaking to refrain from further publications.
In the letter, Gbajabiamila argued that he has never had any contact whatsoever with Adeyemi.
Pinheiro labelled the allegations from Adeyemi as “malicious, reckless and entirely without factual foundation” and targeted at showing Gbajabiamila as “corrupt, morally bankrupt, and a murderer”.
The law firm said “unless the foregoing demands are fully complied with within 72 hours of your receipt of this letter, our Client shall, without further reference to you, commence appropriate legal proceedings against you”, including lodging a criminal petition/complaint against “you for criminal defamation of our client in line with extant laws of the F.C.T.
