A video of Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew, the man at the centre of the alleged N1.3 billion “ghost agency” scandal, resurfaced online on Monday as controversy over the purported Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) deepened.
The development came as the office signage directing visitors to the council’s purported office remained mounted at the Federal Secretariat in Abuja despite the presidency’s insistence that the agency was never established by the federal government.
The video, recorded during a press conference in late June, showed Adeyemi defending his claim to the leadership of the alleged council while challenging the position of the presidency and the Office of the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila.
During the briefing, Adeyemi questioned how an agency the Presidency described as non-existent could appear in official budget documents.
“The national budget does not emerge in isolation. It passes through multiple layers of technical drafting, executive coordination, ministerial inputs, Budget Office review and finally legislative scrutibudget officeambers of the National Assembly,” he said.
