Gbajabiamila Threatens 10bn Defamation Suit, Gives Adeniyi Adeyemi 72 Hours to Retract Allegations

Chief of Staff to the President, Rt. Hon. Olufemi Gbajabiamila

By Wale Igbintade

Chief of Staff to the President, Rt. Hon. Olufemi Gbajabiamila, has threatened to institute a N10 billion defamation suit and criminal proceedings against ‘Director General’ of the controversial Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council; Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew unless he retracts and apologises for what he described as false and defamatory allegations contained in a widely circulated press conference within 72 hours.

The demand was conveyed in a cease-and-desist letter dated July 6, 2026, issued by his solicitors, Pinheiro LP, and signed by Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Kemi Pinheiro.

The law firm said it was acting on the instructions of Gbajabiamila, whom it described as “one of Nigeria’s most accomplished public servants” whose reputation had been built over decades of public service as a lawyer, former Speaker of the House of Representatives and now Chief of Staff to the President.