For over a year, Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew built a fake identity inside the Nigerian government by creating a body known as the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) and then presented himself as the director-general.
The presidency insisted that the agency never existed even though he secured a real office space in the Federal Secretariat Office, where he held meetings with foreign diplomats and Nigerian officials for over a year. Trouble started for the PFIPC when another agency reported that Adeyemi’s agency seemed to be working against it, with Chief of Staff Femini Gbajabiamila petitioning the DSS and police force to investigate.
Police arrested DG Adeyemi at his office in Abuja on October 27, 2025, and his house at Suleja was also searched. Searches turned up fake documents and other evidence, with the prominent one being a forged presidential appointment letter bearing a fake Gbajabiamila signature.
In November 2025, the police filed an eighth count charge against Adeyemi and two co-defendants, including conspiracy, forgery, impersonation, and false personation, but the scandal deepened when the fake council turned up with a real budget line. It appeared in the 2026 Appropriation Act with an allocation of over ₦1.3 billion.
While being out on bail, Adeyemi resurfaced with claims that Gbajabiamila personally appointed him. He accused Gbajabiamila of demanding 48% of a ₦27.4 billion “take-off grant,” having already paid over 400 million through a proxy.
The presidency maintains Adeyemi is a serial fraudster with a history dating back to 2016. The matter is still at the Federal High Court, with DG Adeyemi due back on July 27, 2026.
