Embattled PFIPC Director General Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew has claimed in a video call with social media critic VeryDarkMan that he established the controversial agency purely out of patriotic passion, says he was in detention when its budget was defended in the National Assembly, and revealed that the friend who allegedly paid for the agency’s establishment has since died in a hotel fire in Abuja.
Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew, embattled Director General of the controversial Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), broke his silence in a video call with popular social media critic Martins Otse, known as VeryDarkMan, on Wednesday, offering his most detailed public account yet of how the agency came to exist.
According to The Punch,Adeyemi insisted his motivations were entirely patriotic. “I established that amount for the agency’s office out of passion for the country. I wanted to bring in foreign investors to Nigeria so that I can write my name in gold. I am just desperate to serve,” he said.
But the interview produced a bombshell that overshadows even the agency’s budget controversy: the friend he identified as having paid the money for the agency’s establishment — Dolapo Tanimola — is dead, killed in a fire at a hotel in Utako, Abuja.
“My friend, who paid the money for the establishment of the agency, is now dead in a fire accident in a hotel in Utako, Abuja,” Adeyemi disclosed.
On the agency’s appearance in the 2026 Appropriation Act — despite the Presidency insisting it doesn’t exist — Adeyemi said he was completely blindsided. “I didn’t prepare any budget. In fact, I was in detention for 23 days when the budget for the Presidential Foreign Council was prepared and defended in the National Assembly between October and November,” he stated.
He added that by the time he was released on November 19, 2025, he had been charged to court and his office space reallocated.
Adeyemi also revealed that former Inspector General of Police Kayode Egbetokun had invited him to explain the agency’s origins, during which he provided the name and contact of the person who facilitated his appointment letter — after which he was detained.
He said he is now ready to surrender all documents to police and DSS to support the ongoing investigation.
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