The African Democratic Congress has called for an independent judicial commission of inquiry into the controversy surrounding the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, accusing the President Bola Tinubu-led government of failing to explain how an organisation it now describes as “fictitious” allegedly operated across several federal institutions.
The opposition party said the presidency’s defence of the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, had raised more questions than answers, insisting that the scandal had become a test of the integrity of Nigeria’s public institutions.
In a statement issued on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the ADC said the government’s response to the controversy had exposed what it described as “The staggering depth of institutional decay” in the current government.
“The issues involved point directly at the heart of national governance and raise fundamental questions about institutional integrity and must therefore be treated with the seriousness it deserves,” the party said.
Abdullahi was reacting to a July 1 statement by the presidency through the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, in which the government described the PFIPC as a fictitious organisation.
