President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday, ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), to probe the activities of a purported Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council and all matters connected to it.
This was contained in a statement signed by Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga.
According to the statement, the President ordered the anti-graft agency to conclude its investigation and submit a comprehensive report within 30 days.
The statement said the directive followed the discovery that the so-called Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council was fictitious and had never been established by the Federal Government.
“The directive follows the discovery of the fictitious PFIPC, which was never established by the Federal Government of Nigeria and has no basis in any law, presidential instrument, executive approval, or other lawful act of Government,” the statement read.
It alleged that one Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew falsely presented himself as the Director-General of the council and claimed to be a presidential appointee.
Among the issues to be investigated, the Presidency said, are “the forged appointment letters and other official government documents; the use of a false claim of presidential appointment to seek or obtain official recognition and diplomatic support, including visa facilitation; and the opening of multiple bank accounts in the names of purported government agencies using allegedly forged documents.”
