There is a peculiar comfort that Nigerian power structures take in finding a single villain. It happened with the fake arms contracts of the Dasuki years, and it is happening again with the extraordinary case of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, a government agency that did not exist, run from an office inside the seat of the presidency, that came within reach of nearly a billion naira in public funds before anyone in authority appears to have asked the most basic question: does this thing actually exist?