NSA disowned DG Adeyemi’s ‘fake’ PFIPC in November letter – Foreign Affairs ministry

A House of Representatives ad hoc panel probing the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council has heard that both the agency and its self-styled Director-General, Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew, are not recognised by any office of the Federal Government, with the National Security Adviser’s office confirming he is entirely unknown to state authorities.

Nigeria’s latest phantom agency saga has taken a dramatic turn — and the picture emerging before a House of Representatives panel is damning.

The Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, which had been operating under the leadership of self-styled Director-General Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew, has been confirmed as a non-existent entity with no legal standing and no government recognition. That was the central message delivered to the House ad hoc panel probing the agency’s legitimacy, as reported by The Nation.

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Dunoma Umar Ahmed, told the panel that after observing discrepancies in requests submitted by Prince Adeyemi, the ministry wrote to the Office of the National Security Adviser in October 2025 seeking clarification. The response, received on November 26, 2025, was categorical.

“The responses it received from the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and the Office of the Chief of Staff to the President revealed that Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew was unknown to any office of the Federal Government,” Ahmed told the panel.

The audacity of the scheme is striking. Adeyemi reportedly approached the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on three separate occasions — June 26, 2025, August 5, 2025, and June 5, 2026 — requesting collaboration and endorsement to host a World Investment Summit in Nigeria. The ministry refused each time, citing discrepancies in submitted letters and the ongoing legitimacy investigation.

Ahmed further confirmed that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs never participated in any diplomatic engagement facilitated by the PFIPC, signed no memoranda of understanding on its behalf, received no foreign delegations through it, and issued no directives to Nigerian missions abroad regarding the council.

In short — no documents, no interactions, no recognition. The PFIPC existed in name only, and its alleged director-general remains a figure unknown to the Nigerian state.

The House panel’s investigation is ongoing.