Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew, acclaimed Director General of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council/Presidential Economic Advisory Council. Credit: Bayo Onanuga
The Presidency on Friday declared that internal collaborators within government institutions who enabled Prince Adeniyi Mathew to operate a fictitious presidential agency for months without detection would be hunted down and prosecuted.
It also urged security agencies to dismantle what it described as a criminal network embedded within affected federal establishments.
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, who made the declaration in a post on his X handle, accused Matthew Adeniyi of being an “irredeemable con artist” who is expertly exploiting Nigerian public psychology regarding corruption to shield himself from criminal accountability by dragging the name of the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, into his multi-billion naira fraudulent enterprise.
He said investigators from the Department of State Services, the Police and the Economics and Financial Crime Commission had been tasked with unravelling the full extent of the collaboration that allowed Adeyemi to forge presidential appointment letters, maintain 34 bank accounts in the names of fictitious government bodies, host foreign ambassadors and open a Central Bank account, all while parading himself as the Director-General of a non-existent body called the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council.
