Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, has claimed that a missing telephone number on a State House letterhead exposed the forged appointment letter used to run a fake federal agency from the Federal Secretariat Complex in Abuja.
Ajayi explained that the genuine letterhead carries no such number, unlike the one brandished by Adeniyi Adeyemi, the man at the centre of the scandal.
He was speaking during an interview on Arise Television on Friday, while addressing the controversy surrounding the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, an entity the Presidency has since disowned.
“On the genuine State House letterhead, there is no contact telephone number. On the purported appointment letter, however, there is one,” Ajayi said.
He said anybody familiar with how the Presidency operates would immediately spot the discrepancy.
“So anybody who understands how the system works will know this is a pure scam and a forged document,” he said.
Ajayi insisted that presidential appointments do not originate from the office of the Chief of Staff.
“You have been covering the State House for a number of years, and we all know that the Chief of Staff does not make appointments. It is the President who makes appointments into agencies or extra-ministerial positions,” he said.
