•Adeyemi called on President Tinubu to constitute a panel to investigate numerous alleged frauds linked to his Chief of Staff.
Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, the embattled Director-General of the Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC) and the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), has asked President Bola Tinubu to probe his Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, over alleged disagreement concerning funds.
Adeyemi called on President Tinubu to constitute a panel to investigate numerous alleged frauds linked to his Chief of Staff.
Addressing a press conference in Abuja, Prince Adeyemi urged Tinubu to “order a full-scale, independent, and transparent investigation into allegations of misconduct and alleged financial issues surrounding Gbajabiamila, particularly regarding the alleged irregularities in the purported establishment and recognition of the Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC) and the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC).”
Prince Adeyemi requested that the investigative panel should comprise relevant government agencies, credible civil society organisations, international organisations, and members of the media.
He said Nigerians were waiting for Gbajabiamila to explain what he knows about the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council and the Presidential Economic Advisory Council, adding that, “the issue is a cloud of public misrepresentation, institutional denial, and deliberate attempts to silence legitimate questions that concern matters of national interest”, he stated.
Prince Adeyemi said: “On 11th June 2026, Hon. Olufemi Hakeem Gbajabiamila issued a disclaimer distancing his Office as the Chief of Staff to the President from Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), alongside the Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC), claiming that the Agency did not exist”.
Continuing, Prince Adeyemi said: “I reject the attempts to reduce this matter to simple denials without addressing the core questions that Nigerians have been asking since 2025”.
He further asked: “Let’s even assume that the agency did not exist, then how did its name finds its way into the 2026 appropriation budget pages 50 and 51, and If the agency does not exist, yet it appears on the Nigerian national budget, does that mean that the entire 2026 appropriation budget is a fraud?”
According to him “Because the national budget does not emerge in isolation, it passes through multiple layers of rigorous and processes, legislative drafting, executive coordination, ministerial inputs, budget office review, and finally scrutiny by both chambers of the National Assembly where COS has meritoriously served for good 20 Years and rose from Minority to Majority leaders and Speaker for 4 years”. What does it imply if the integrity of the process that produced and approved those documents if they are indeed present in official documentation?
He also questioned: “How come there are authenticated and verifiable administrative processes, budgetary lines, and institutional communications connected to this Agency if it doesn’t exist and why does it have active Domiciliary Account, Pounds Account and Treasury Single Account all domiciled in Central Bank of Nigeria if according to Gbajabiamila, the agency is non-existent?
Please note that the process of opening an account with CBN starts from the Office of Accountant General of the Federation.
It has been alleged in certain quarters that there were attempts or considerations by the Chief of Staff to use security institutions in Nigeria to frame my diplomatic engagements as espionage or disloyalty. I categorically reject any attempt to criminalise lawful activity.”
Concluding, Prince Adeyemi appealed to President Tinubu to immediately constitute an independent investigative panel to: Compel the Chief of Staff to produce all official documents he signed since assuming office for forensic analysis because, “he who must come to equity, must come with clean hands”.
Prince Adeyemi concluded: “If I am wrong, let an independent process prove it, and if Gbajabiamila is right, let the process also confirm it.”
Sahara Reporters
