PFIPC Saga Update: Adeyemi Lists Ministries Involved In PFIPC’s Creation

The self- acclaimed Director-General of the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC), Adeniyi Adeyemi, has rejected allegations that he personally established the disputed agency.

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‎Reports says that Adeyemi, who is currently in police custody, claimed that several ministries, departments and agencies of the Federal Government processed documents, assigned personnel or officially interacted with the council over an extended period.

‎He made the claims in a statement issued on Sunday 2 August, by his legal defence team and signed by Festus Akhigbe.

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‎The lawyers also requested that Adeyemi be allowed to appear before the House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the establishment and activities of the council.

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‎The committee, chaired by Yusuf Gagdi, had commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the creation and operation of the PFIPC.

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‎Adeyemi’s legal team argued that any final report produced by the committee without hearing directly from their client would be incomplete and contrary to his constitutional right to a fair hearing.

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‎The statement read, “We formally request that the panel issue the necessary administrative clearance to allow our client, Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew, to appear in person and testify.

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‎“Any investigative outcome or final legislative report produced without affording our client a direct hearing would be fundamentally flawed, incomplete, and a breach of the constitutional right to a fair hearing, audi alteram partem.”

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‎The lawyers maintained that Adeyemi should be given an opportunity to explain his role in the council and respond to the allegations made against him.

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‎They rejected attempts to present him as “an isolated, mastermind impostor” who allegedly fabricated a government institution without the involvement of public officials or agencies.

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