Fresh details have emerged in the controversy surrounding the disputed Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), as three senior civil servants deployed to the agency told investigators they resumed duty in Abuja but were never assigned any responsibilities.
The officials, who were posted from the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF), later became key witnesses in the forgery and impersonation case instituted against Adeniyi Adeyemi, the man who allegedly presented himself as the Director-General of the Council.
The Federal Government has since disowned the PFIPC, insisting that it neither established the agency nor appointed Adeyemi to lead it.
Adeyemi, however, has denied the allegations of forgery and impersonation, maintaining that he would clear his name in court.
According to Premium Times, court documents revealed that Adeyemi allegedly wrote to the Accountant-General of the Federation on April 4, 2025, requesting the deployment of accounting and audit personnel to the Council.
The positions requested reportedly included Principal Accountant, Accountant I, Principal Auditor, Senior Auditor and Auditor I.
A posting letter later published on the OAGF website showed that at least three civil servants were deployed to the agency on August 28, 2025.
The officials were identified as 55-year-old Assistant Chief Accountant, Ojo Victor; 40-year-old Internal Auditor, Omeh Amarachukwu; and 45-year-old Audit Officer, Wakili Saidu.
In separate statements made at the Force Headquarters on November 10, 2025, the three officials told investigators that they first reported to Adeyemi on September 1 with their posting letters.
According to them, Adeyemi received the letters and instructed them to formally resume duties on September 8.
However, upon resumption, the workers said they were simply given an open office to share and were neither documented nor assigned any duties or work schedules.
“We are three officers posted at the same time, and when we resumed on 8 September, the three of us were given an open office that the three of us were sitting down without doing anything,” Victor said.
He added, “I have not been documented, and no schedule has been given to me since my assumption, which I find very strange.”
Saidu also told investigators, “Since then, there has been no correspondence between me and the DG.”
The three officials further disclosed that they had never heard of the PFIPC before their deployment to the agency.
“I have never heard of that agency until I saw my name posted to the agency,” Saidu stated.
Victor similarly said, “I have not heard about the organisation before until my posting introduction came out on 28 August 2025.”
Amarachukwu told investigators that the absence of work forced him to report to the office only once every week.
“I only go to work once in a week, the reason being that we have nothing doing since we were posted there,” he said.
Victor also admitted that he visited the office only once or twice weekly “just to show our face in the office because there was no assignment or schedule.”
Saidu, on his part, said he reported for duty three times every week — Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
The Federal Government has already filed an eight-count charge bordering on forgery and impersonation against Adeyemi before the Federal High Court.
Police investigators alleged that he forged appointment letters, approval documents and official letterheads in a bid to portray himself as the head of the PFIPC.
Investigators further claimed that some of the allegedly forged documents were used to facilitate the deployment of accountants and auditors from the OAGF to the Council.
Adeyemi has denied any wrongdoing and has accused the Presidency of attempting to silence him.
