Official documents from the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation have revealed that treasury officers were formally redeployed from federal ministries to the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council in August 2025 — deepening the contradiction between the Presidency’s denial of the agency’s existence and a growing paper trail confirming its operations.
The paper trail just got longer — and the Presidency’s position just got harder to defend.
Amid the swirling controversy over the existence of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), official documents obtained and reported by Gazette NGR now show that the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) formally redeployed treasury officers from federal ministries to the agency in August 2025.
A circular dated August 28, 2025, signed by OAGF Director of Administration Dauda Abdulhamid, directed the posting of specific officers — including staff from the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs — to the PFIPC, with assumption-of-duty certificates required by September 11, 2025. Recipients of the circular included permanent secretaries and heads of key federal institutions including the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.
Named in the redeployment documents were Omeh Amarachukwu Henry, a Grade Level 12 principal auditor posted to the PFIPC audit unit; Wakili Saidu Lampo, a Grade Level 10 senior auditor; and Ojo Akinpelu Victor, a Grade Level 13 accounts officer — all redeployed from the foreign affairs ministry to the PFIPC accounts unit.
The OAGF circular also carried a pointed warning: “Failure to comply with this posting instruction shall be treated in accordance with the provisions of the Public Service Rules PSR 020602 (iv).”
This latest revelation compounds an already damaging series of contradictions. The PFIPC already appears in Nigeria’s 2026 Appropriation Act with a N1.3 billion budget allocation, operates from an office at the Federal Secretariat, and received a government waiver to recruit 300 staff members.
Yet Chief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila insists the agency does not exist under the Tinubu administration and that PFIPC head Adeniyi Adeyemi — who has alleged that Gbajabiamila collected N400 million through a proxy to facilitate his appointment — is an impostor.
The OAGF spokesperson could not be reached for comment.
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