File: Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi.

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, has said a missing telephone number on a State House letterhead exposed the forged appointment letter used to run a fake federal agency from the Federal Secretariat Complex in Abuja.

He said the genuine letterhead carries no such number, unlike the one brandished by Adeniyi Adeyemi, the man at the centre of the scandal.Ajayi disclosed this during an interview on Arise Television on Friday, while addressing the controversy surrounding the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, an entity the Presidency has since disowned.

“On the genuine State House letterhead, there is no contact telephone number. On the purported appointment letter, however, there is one,” Ajayi said.

He said anybody familiar with how the Presidency operates would immediately spot the discrepancy.