Adeniyi Adeyemi, the esteemed Director-General of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, has declared that he is prepared to assist the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission in its probe of the fictional organization. He made this claim on Tuesday in an Instagram conversation with social media star VeryDarkMan, just hours after President Bola Tinubu ordered the ICPC to investigate the agency's operations and any associated issues, requesting a thorough report within 30 days.
To support ongoing investigations into the scandal surrounding the body, Adeyemi further stated that he is prepared to turn over materials in his possession to security services.
"I am willing and ready to help security agencies or any panel set up by Mr. President to unravel the truth," he declared.
"In fact, I will go to the DSS or the police right now to turn in all the paperwork I have so they can look into this."
Adeyemi claimed to have records he believed would help investigators better understand the council's conditions.
"They ought to verify them. They ought to confirm them. "They ought to discover the truth," he declared.
Adeyemi questioned how the council, which the presidency maintains does not exist, was included in the national budget during the interview.
"I wondered how an agency that found its way into the national budget could suddenly be described as fake when the Presidency, through the Chief of Staff, said the agency does not exist," he added.
"I was in detention for 23 days during the period the budget was being prepared," he continued. No budget was prepared or defended by me, and no one went to defend it on my behalf. For this reason, I don't see how the agency got into the national budget.
Regarding his accusations against the President's Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, Adeyemi stated that he would rather have an impartial investigation than level more charges.
"I wouldn't say he's telling the truth or that he's lying. For this reason, I asked Mr. President to form an investigating team in order to find the truth and identify those responsible," he stated.
Adeyemi reaffirmed that his participation in the council was motivated by a desire to draw foreign investment to Nigeria and added that he was attacked by gunmen in the vicinity of Zuma Rock in September 2025.
"I don't actually have any bad plans. It all comes down to love for the nation. The purpose of the institution is to attract foreign investors and establish Nigeria as a top investment destination, he stated.
Tinubu also instructed the ICPC to look into the alleged use of forged appointment letters and official government documents by Adeyemi to obtain diplomatic support and official recognition, including the facilitation of visas, as well as the opening of numerous bank accounts in the names of alleged government agencies using allegedly forged documents.
The directive follows weeks of growing public pressure from senior lawyers, opposition politicians, and civil society organizations to conduct an independent investigation into how the fictitious council engaged diplomatic missions, opened accounts with the Central Bank of Nigeria, appeared in the 2026 Appropriations Act with a N1.3 billion allocation, and operated out of the Federal Secretariat Complex without any enabling legislation or presidential instrument.
Adeyemi's human rights attorney, Femi Falana, demanded that the ICPC look into both Adeyemi and Gbajabiamila and questioned how the body got into the national budget even if the appointment letter was fake.
The Presidency denied that Gbajabiamila had anything to do with the plot, claiming that police forensic examination had shown the appointment letter's signature was faked.