The Presidency wants Nigerians to believe that one Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew, single-handedly invented a federal agency, secured a sprawling office at the Federal Secretariat, inserted a budget line, and summoned foreign ambassadors to a meeting at the Wells Carlton Hotel — all through forged documents and some juju in his mouth.
If Prince Adeyemi possesses such extraordinary powers that he could mesmerise the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, the Federal Civil Service, the National Assembly, and segments of the diplomatic community, then the real scandal is not his audacity but the astonishing porosity of the Tinubu administration.
According to the presidency, this serial impostor — who once paraded himself as the head of a fictitious UN-affiliated World Youth Organisation — hoodwinked everyone. He obtained a federal government’s office space, opened bank accounts (including with the CBN), and somehow caused a non-existent entity called the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council to appear in the 2026 federal budget with an allocation of over ¦ 1.3 billion. He then hosted ambassadors and senior officials without anyone in the Foreign Ministry or the National Security Adviser’s office noticing until it was too late.
