Police investigation report shows that the police have yet to question the individuals who signed the letters through which Mr Adeyemi penetrated the highest levels of the Nigerian government.
It is now clear how shocking, sophisticated, and embarrassing the fraud allegedly perpetrated by the disowned Director-General of the non-existent Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), Adeniyi Adeyemi, was, and how it penetrated the highest hierarchy of the Nigerian civil service.
It is also likely that some collaborators within the system colluded with or enabled Mr Adeyemi to commit the alleged fraud. However, the police investigation into the matter failed to link any individual in government or the civil service to Mr Adeyemi or his alleged fraud.
After a careful review of the entire saga, PREMIUM TIMES can now identify civil servants and agencies that signed letters that helped Mr Adeyemi secure a CBN account, a budget code, an office space at the federal secretariat, the deployment of staff and several other perks reserved only for legitimate government entities and officials.
The letters processed by these senior officials on behalf of Mr Adeyemi’s PFIPC have cast doubt on their competence, diligence, commitment to duty, and judgment. They also raised questions about how these senior civil servants verify the requests they receive before processing them.
While these letters are listed as exhibits in the Nigerian government’s lawsuit against Mr Adeyemi, the police investigation report seen by this newspaper shows that the police have not interrogated any of the individuals who approved, processed, and signed these letters on behalf of their respective agencies. Meanwhile, they are accessories to letters that helped Mr Adeyemi and the PFIPC penetrate the highest level and innermost recesses of the Nigerian civil service.
PREMIUM TIMES couldn’t independently verify whether these letters were forged or genuine. However, by questioning these individuals, the authenticity of the letters and the motivations for issuing them could be ascertained.
“Anyhow you look at it, questions are begging for answers. And whatever the answers will be, they will not be good,” said Joe Abah, a former DG of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR).
Documents reviewed by this newspaper revealed that the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF), the Office of the Chief of Staff to the President, the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) uncovered Mr Adeyemi’s alleged fraud in November 2025.
In October 2025, Mr Gbajabiamila wrote to the Inspector General of Police and the Director General of the State Security Service (SSS), urging them to investigate Mr Adeyemi, while accusing him of forgery.
On 27 October 2025, he wrote to the Minister of Foreign Affairs to disclaim Mr Adeyemi and his agency after the ministry sought clarification.
On 5 November, the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, also wrote to the SGF to disclaim the man and the agency, saying the presidency did not set up the agency or appoint anyone to run it.
But none of them issued a public disclaimer about it until more than six months later, in June 2026, thereby allowing Mr Adeyemi to continue his deceitful activities.
The simple question remains, why? Why did the government keep quiet instead of warning potential victims of Mr Adeyemi’s activities?
Mr Adeyemi claims that Mr Gbajabiamila issued his letter of appointment.
The police say the letter is fake, and the Chief of Staff has denied issuing it.
In addition, Mr Gbajabiamila was the first official to disown Mr Adeyemi and wrote to the Inspector General of Police and the Director General of the State Security Services (SSS), accusing him of forgery.
But the police also said in their investigation report that they have yet to question Mr Gbajabiamila or compare his actual signature with the ones on the alleged forged letter.
“It is pertinent to note that the statement of the complainant (Mr Gbajabiamila) or his representative from the Office of the Chief of Staff to the President is yet to be recorded,” the police investigation report said.
“Similarly, specimen signatures are yet to be obtained for forensic comparison and analysis.”
A presidency official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorised to discuss the matter with the media, said the police needed to explain why they did not interview Mr Gbajabiamila despite Mr Adeyemi’s claim that he signed the appointment letter issued to him.
“I am sure the Chief of Staff would have been glad to answer their questions on the matter,” the official said.
But when contacted by PREMIUM TIMES, Olanrewaju Smart, a longtime aide of Mr Gbajabiamila, stoutly defended his boss, saying, “How can the whistleblower who got him (Mr Adeyemi) arrested and also issued a public disclaimer be the same person who collected money from him? Shouldn’t he be doing everything to protect the guy? If he exposes the guy, is he not exposing himself? It’s just common sense.
“The so-called appointment letter is clearly forged on its face value, apart from the fact that the Chief of Staff (COS) does not and has never issued anyone a letter of appointment. That is the exclusive mandate of the SGF. Even the COS’s letter of appointment came from the SGF. Interestingly, he (Mr Adeyemi) is claiming that the only link between him and the COS died in a fire accident in a hotel. Stranger than fiction!”
“The guy’s history of fraud speaks volumes. The guy successfully visited and took pictures with many influential people in Nigeria, but no picture with the person he is accusing. That’s really strange.
“This is a public interest matter, and the security agencies need to broaden their investigations and unravel the collaborators, particularly those who dropped the ball, irrespective of whose ox is gored.”
One of the mind-blowing revelations in this controversy is how an agency that the Nigerian government claims doesn’t exist secured a budget code and got its budget included and approved in the 2026 budget.
Who is responsible for assigning a budget code, and how did the non-existent agency get one? What does the process of getting a budget code look like? Was any part of it circumvented? Also, who compiled and vetted the State House’s 2026 budget, which captured the non-existent agency?
The Nigerian government and the police, who investigated the matter, have yet to provide answers to these questions, leaving Nigerians dumbfounded.
According to documents seen by this newspaper, Nnamdi Mbaeri, then the Permanent Secretary, General Services Office at the OSGF, signed the letter requesting office space for the PFIPC.
In the letter, dated 21 November 2024, Mr Mbaeri asked the Chairperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to allocate office accommodation from recovered federal government properties.
