Despite the Presidency’s insistence that the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council does not exist, a visit to the Federal Secretariat in Abuja on Monday confirmed that the agency’s directional signage remains mounted on the floor occupied by the Federal Ministry of Health, pointing visitors toward its office
The Presidency says it doesn’t exist. The sign on the wall of the Federal Secretariat disagrees.
A visit to the Federal Secretariat in Abuja on Monday, as reported by TheCable, confirmed that directional signage for the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) — also referred to as the Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC) — remains firmly mounted on the floor shared with the Federal Ministry of Health, guiding visitors toward an office the federal government publicly claims has never existed under the Tinubu administration.
The signage’s continued presence at Nigeria’s premier administrative hub — home to the offices of ministries, departments and agencies — adds yet another physical contradiction to an already deeply tangled scandal.
The controversy erupted in June when Chief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila issued a disclaimer stating that his office never appointed Adeniyi Adeyemi to head the PFIPC and that the organisation has no legal standing under the current administration. Adeyemi fired back, demanding an independent presidential panel and pointedly asking how a non-existent agency secured a N1,302,978,784 allocation in the 2026 Appropriation Act.
The questions have only multiplied since. TheCable revealed that the federal government granted the PFIPC a special waiver in August 2025 to recruit 300 staff members, bypassing the existing civil service recruitment embargo. Official documents subsequently showed the Office of the Accountant General formally redeployed treasury officers to the agency, while the SGF’s office processed and forwarded PFIPC correspondence to the EFCC in November 2024.
The Presidency last Wednesday accused Adeyemi of forging a presidential appointment letter. Police have filed an eight-count charge against him and two others currently at large.
The signage, however, has not been charged with anything — and remains exactly where it was.
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