₦airaland Forum

STATEHOUSE STATEMENT

Re: The Matter of Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew and the fictitious  Presidential Economic Advisory Council

We are aware of the public interest in the matter of a man called  Adeyemi Adeniyi Matthew, who has been parading himself as the director-general of a fictitious Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council cum Presidential Economic Advisory Council.

The office of the Chief of Staff to the President first blew the whistle on the existence of the illegal agency, following complaints from officials of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Council that another government agency appeared to be functioning at cross-purposes with it.

The Chief of Staff, on October 17, 2025, in a letter, asked the DSS and the Police to probe the activities of ‘fraudsters and imposters’ forging appointment letters purportedly from his office.

“The attention of this office has been drawn to the activities of certain individuals and groups engaged in the forgery of official appointment letters purportedly issued from my office. The fake documents, bearing falsified signatures, reference/folio numbers, and seals, have been used to claim leadership appointments to non-existent entities, with particular reference to the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council.

“The aforementioned entity under the leadership of one Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew as Director-General is said to have an office at the Federal Secretariat Complex Phase 111, 2nd Floor. Also, they have been parading themselves as a legitimate government agency, hosting meetings with both foreigners and Nigerian citizens, and even going so far as to request a note verbale from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the United States of America to facilitate visas for some of their staff.

“The above development not only constitutes a serious criminal act but also undermines the integrity of the presidency and the credibility of official government communication. 

“I therefore urge you to initiate a thorough investigation to identify and apprehend those involved and also to uncover the network facilitating the forgery,” the Chief of Staff wrote in his petition to the security agencies.

The letter to the security agencies was accompanied by a copy of the forged appointment letter, a copy of the request for a note verbal to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and pictures of engagements obtained from the illegal agency's website.

Around the time the Chief of Staff lodged the complaint with the security agencies, the existence of the fake agency had raised concerns within the Foreign Affairs Ministry.

In a letter on October 15, 2025, the Foreign Affairs Ministry wrote to the office of the National Security Adviser and the Chief of Staff to the President, requesting clarification on the status of Adeyemi’s agency. The letter, which Ambassador Anderson Madubuike signed, followed Adeyemi’s October 10 meeting with ambassadors at the Wells Carlton Hotel and Apartments in Asokoro, without recourse to the ministry.

“This act contravenes extant rules and regulations guiding diplomatic practices globally,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in its letter.

On October 20, the Office of the National Security Adviser wrote to the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, on the request of the Foreign Affairs Ministry.

On 29 October,  the OSGF wrote to the Chief of Staff requesting clarification. “This has become expedient owing to several requests from governmental and non-governmental bodies seeking to ascertain the status of the appointment under consideration”

Two days earlier, the Chief of Staff sent his own clear rebuttal to the Foreign Affairs Ministry, stating that he had never issued an appointment letter to Adeyemi as director general of the fake presidential foreign investment promotion council. The Chief of Staff could not have issued a letter of appointment to a non-existent agency. Moreover, the Chief of Staff does not make appointments or write letters, as these are the exclusive preserve of the Office of the Secretary of the Government of the Federation.

On November 5, 2025, the Chief of Staff responded to the OSGF, again flatly denying Adeniyi Adeyemi and his spurious agency. “Prince Adeniyi Matthew, director-general of the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, is unknown to any office, nor do we have any dealings with the said council.

“My attention was drawn to a letter of this purported application, which is fake, and my office has instructed the police and other relevant security agencies to carry out investigations on the person and the entity he claims to represent”, the chief of staff wrote.

The Police made the first move by responding to the chief of staff's letter dated 17 October and began their investigation. On 27 October, Adeyemi was arrested in Abuja at the Secretariat office where he operated his elaborate scam.

The police searched the office and Adeyemi’s home in Suleja, recovering vital documents and exhibits. In Adeyemi’s statement to the police, he claimed that one Dolapo Babatunde Tanimola assisted him in procuring the fake appointment letter. Following his claim, the police went after the said Tanimola.  The Police found that Tanimola died in a fire incident at Kachi Hotel in Abuja on 22 October, five days before Adeyemi’s arrest. Tanimola’s body was seen by the police at the morgue, confirming the death.

The police were able to establish that the agency Adeyemi purportedly headed was fictitious, that he forged his appointment letter and the documents recovered in his office and home, that he falsely paraded himself as a government appointee, and that he falsely solicited a note verbal from the Foreign Affairs Ministry to enable him and his staff to obtain US visas. The police also found that Adeyemi operated 34 bank accounts, with nine opened in the names of his fictitious agencies, known as the FCT Investment Promotion Agency and the Public Private Partnership (FIPA-APP), and the FCT Investment Promotion Act.

The Police found that Adeyemi, using the fake documents he created, fraudulently opened a CBN account by misleading the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation. According to the police, no government money has been transferred into the account.

“The act of the suspect constitutes criminal forgery, impersonation and obtaining by false pretence, thereby bringing the office of the Chief of Staff to the President and the Presidency to disrepute before the public and international community”, the police wrote in the report of the investigation conducted by the assistant commissioner, Kabir Mogaji. 

Based on their investigations, the police filed an eight-count charge at the Federal High Court in Abuja against Adeyemi and two of his accomplices on November 27, 2025. He is due in court on July 27.

Adeyemi was on police bail when he recently claimed that the Chief of Staff had appointed him as DG of the fictitious agency. This claim contradicted his statement to the police in November last year. His new claim prompted the Chief of Staff, on June 8, to issue a disclaimer consistent with earlier advisories that the man, called Adeyemi,  is an impostor. 

The case of Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew is a clear case of a con artist who appears to have built a web of false claims to deceive unsuspecting government officials and the public into playing by his scam book. He has a history of fraudulent misrepresentation. In November 2016,he paraded himself as an ambassador and President-General of the World Youth Organisation (WYO), an affiliate of the United Nations (UN). He claimed to have been elected in New Delhi, India. The local media celebrated him until the UN denied the existence of such a body.

Politicians and members of the public who are weaponising Adeyemi's claim against the Chief of Staff should refrain from swallowing his narrative hook, line and sinker. They are advised to await the trial of Adeyemi and his accomplices, as well as the court's judgement, as comments made today are sub judice.

Bayo Onanuga
Special Adviser to the President,
Information and Strategy,
July 1, 2026

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FG should also investigate the allegations without sweeping it under the carpet

There is no smoke without fire

So how come budgetary allocation was made to this supposed fake agency? Why is the presidency silent on this?

Hehehe! And the NASS have been reckoning this agency as under govt? How did the appropriation act then contains budgetary provisions for the same agency? You have a lengthy explaination to clarify this criminality

The presidency coming out to defend the Chief of Staff only signals one thing, Gbaja might just be a bagman for someone higher up the food chain. Do not underestimate the extent of their greed. They have an insatiable appetite.

This is Adeniyi Adeyemi circa 2025, in audience with the deputy speaker as covered by Tinubu’s Punch Newspapers. The agency wasn't illegal until he blew the whistle in 2026. Only then did it become illegal.

P.S: The same guy with the fake appointment letter was also able to secure an appointment with the EFCC Chairman on a courtesy visit. Says a lot about due diligence and professionalism or maybe someone is just trying to cover up. The agency also has a .gov.ng Web address and even secured waiver to recruit over 300 staff.

Who is the presidency sef? Some bunch of incompetent folks who lie despite the obvious?

treesun:
So Presidency mistakenly budgeted N1.3 bntoan impostor, Nlfpmod!

Not only that, he had an office allocated to him in the federal secretariat and even had a police orderly.

AMINDA:
Not only that, he had an office allocated to him in the federal secretariat and even had a police orderly.

And this is what Gbaja and Bayo Onanuga is trying to extricate the presidency from? God! This nation is a shame and disgrace.

Una go explain tire!

How did the 1.3 billion naira enter our national budget from a so-called impostor?

The shameless old clown has started defending nonsense again

It's obi that paid Adeyemi inside tulumbu Apc government.... Last last una go run out of ideas and finally cast una sef... This is just the beginning... When you're so busy plotting on what propaganda to use for obi, you forgot to check for the holes you already dug for yourselves

What Bayo is currently doing is not different from damage control Apc laptop boys such as helinues, yarimo, burob, seunmsg and other robots are constantly doing for tulumbu here on nairaland for 30k naira monthly.... You won't see any of them here

An impostor and law enforcement agents can't deal with him. Bayo Onanuga thinks, he is dealing with his kids. Gbaja that swindled people in AMERICA, what else can he not do.

We are ruled by criminals who will never stop stealing no matter how much they have stolen

Hw's fake but billions of naira was allocated to him... Very soon this news will stale and forgotten... No be naija again.

They never knew that the fake ministry will come to limelight and that's why they are running like a headless chicken to counter the man

and you simply can't arrest him

Lol…I dey always pity government spokesperson sha…cos they just have to defend the indefensible…the man even get police orderly ooo…omo Naija no fit better I swear

They can only deceive themselves but we all know the truth

just imagine

This boy above me again

Abeg, why should some people stopped living because of politics

This guy has been trolling me for over half a decade on this forum with numerous monikers

What such of dejected life is that. May our lives not be like these people mehn

Imagine what someone's pikin has dedicated his entire life to be doing for over 5 years

May we not be engulfed with chronic bitterness in life. Amen

https://www.nairaland.com/ogolemati/posts
https://www.nairaland.com/search?q=Specialmati&search=Search

Adeyemi Adeniyi Matthew

Na Dem.

Cock and Bull story!
He forged documents to the extent that he opened an account with CBN.
Just say that the deal you guys set up don cast, everyone wan extricate himself.
Las las, we go still hear the truth!

Nigeria has fallen into the hands of buccaneers and vultures. By the time they finish what they have in stock for this country, it will be unrecognisable.

Baba God pls save this country from these vampires.

Gotocourt:
and you simply can't arrest him

He's on bail and in court standing trial says the post.

Someone that had the mind to pepertuate such a huge scam against the federal government isn't behind bars, such American wonder.







Femi Gbajabiamila collected N400 million bribe, demanded extra N200 million to set up PFIPC: Prince Adeyemi
Mr Adeyemi alleged that Mr Gbajabiamila also demanded 48 per cent of the PFIPC’s N27.4 billion take-off grant.

Oyindamola Olubajo • June 29, 2026
Ex speaker Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila
Ex Reps speaker Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila [Photo: Leadership]
Adeniyi Adeyemi, the director-general of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), has alleged that the chief of staff to the president, Femi Gbajabiamila, received N400 million through a proxy and demanded an additional N200 million to secure his appointment.

Mr Adeyemi alleged at a press conference on Thursday that Mr Gbajabiamila also demanded 48 per cent of the PFIPC’s N27.4 billion take-off grant, a request he said he rejected.

The allegations come amid a dispute over the agency’s existence after Mr Gbajabiamila, in a June 11 statement, said the PFIPC did not exist under President Bola Tinubu’s administration and that Mr Adeyemi had never been appointed to head it.

Mr Adeyemi described the denial as an attempt to “silence legitimate questions,” stating that it stemmed from his refusal to yield to the alleged demands of the president’s chief of staff.

“The major rationale behind the disagreement between myself and the chief of staff is because he allegedly requested 48 per cent of the take-off grant (N27,395,510,136) from the same agency, which he denies, to which I rejected after he collected a total sum of 400 million by proxy, with a remaining balance of 200 million to secure the said appointment,” Mr Adeyemi said.

The chief of staff could not be immediately reached for comments on the allegations.

The PFIPC chief questioned how the agency appeared on pages 50 and 51 of the 2026 appropriation budget if it did not exist, arguing that Mr Gbajabiamila “should possibly resign his appointment now” if he allowed Mr Tinubu to sign such a document.

He said, “If the agency does not exist, yet found its way into the Nigerian national budget, what that means is that the entire 2026 appropriation budget is a fraud and should be discarded.

“For President Bola Tinubu to append his signature to a budget that includes a non-existent agency, according to his chief of staff, is an embarrassment to this hardworking government.”

According to Mr Adeyemi, the “non-existent” agency has operated for over a year, has a space at the federal secretariat, a domiciliary account, a pounds account, and a treasury single account, all of which are domiciled with the Central Bank of Nigeria.

He argued these would not be possible without the agency’s existence.

He accused Mr Gbajabiamila of attempting to frame him as a fraud and plotting to use security agencies to portray his diplomatic engagements as espionage or disloyalty.

Mr Adeyemi also questioned why Mr Gbajabiamila issued the disclaimer instead of President Tinubu’s media aides and challenged him to make available documents and communication trails from the president’s office for examination.

He further alleged that he survived an assassination attempt along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway on September 7, 2025, during which, he said, vital documents and his phones were carted away.

“I reported the case to the police and Department of State Security. I was told the phones were tracked to Gombe State, but an insider confided to me that there was an order from above to refrain from taking any further actions,” he stated.

He urged the president to set up an investigative panel to probe the alleged assassination attempt and the death of Babatunde Tanimola, whom he said was an intermediary between him and Mr Gbajabiamila, even though “the police claimed he died through fire accident at a hotel in Utako, Abuja, on 22nd of October, 2025.”

Also, Mr Adeyemi said the panel should compel the president’s chief of staff to produce all documents he has signed since assuming office.

The PFIPC DG said that the panel, which should comprise civil society organisations and international organisations, should also compel Mr Gbajabiamila to step down pending the outcome of the findings.

He further recommended a review of budgetary references and institutional records, the publication of transparent findings, and a probe of all relevant individuals.

People's Gazette.

helinues:
This boy above me again

Abeg, why should some people stopped living because of politics

This guy has been trolling me for over half a decade on this forum with numerous monikers

What such of dejected life is that. May our lives not be like these people mehn

Imagine what someone's pikin has dedicated his entire life to be doing for over 5 years

May we not be engulfed with chronic bitterness in life. Amen

https://www.nairaland.com/ogolemati/posts
https://www.nairaland.com/search?q=Specialmati&search=Search

Is this a deflection from the serious question of fraudulent allegations against Gbajabiamila? What is the correlation between the news and the distraction you are bringing up here?

These idiots should hasten up and vacate that office of the presidency, as they tend to to ridicule it with their amala politics!

All of una na thieves! Seems like this one outsmarted you all in the game 😂

AMINDA:
The presidency coming out to defend the Chief of Staff only signals one thing, Gbaja might just be a bagman for someone higher up the food chain. Do not underestimate the extent of their greed. They have an insatiable appetite.

This is Adeniyi Adeyemi circa 2025, in audience with the deputy speaker as covered by Tinubu’s Punch Newspapers. The agency wasn't illegal until he blew the whistle in 2026. Only then did it become illegal.

Update that picture so it removes your name

jchioma:
Is this a deflection from the serious question of fraudulent allegations against Gbajabiamila? What is the correlation between the news and the distraction you are bringing up here?

Who is this and did I direct my comments to you?

Sebi you put super glue for your eyes to see my main comments on this thread

Life of trollers Dem. Spits

Wtf did I just read!!! We are doomed

Nigerians are actually not asking the right question. The right question should be "how many shambolic offices like the above do we have budgetary allocations for yearly in this present administration"?

Why this has become an open scandal is because both parties involved fell off along the way.

Comment intelligently.