Fresh official documents have raised questions over the presidency’s insistence that the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC) never existed, revealing that the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) formally received and processed correspondence submitted in the council’s name months before it was publicly declared fictitious.
Documents obtained by Saturday Punch show that the SGF’s office acknowledged a request from Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, who presented himself as director-general of the PFIPC, seeking office accommodation from recovered federal government properties managed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The records indicate that the SGF received the request on November 12, 2024, and subsequently forwarded it to the anti-graft agency on November 21, 2024, for what the office described as “further necessary action”.
The documentary trail has emerged as Adeyemi faces prosecution on allegations of forging presidential documents, impersonating a public official and operating what the presidency has described as a fictitious government agency.
The documents are likely to intensify scrutiny over how an organisation now described as non-existent was able to correspond with federal institutions and have its requests processed through official government channels.
