The Nigeria Police Force will arraign Adeniyi Adeyemi, the Director-General (DG) of a nonexistent Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), in the Federal High Court on Tuesday.
The police, in a fresh court document marked FHC/ABJ/CR/562/2025, charged Adeyemi and two others with eight counts of forgery, impersonation, among others.
The charge was filed on Nov. 27, 2025, by Wisdom Madaki, a police prosecutor.
themomentng reports that on June 16 when the case came up for the suspects to take their plea, Adeyemi was said to be indisposed, and Justice Mohammed Umar adjourned the matter.
According to the court documents, witnesses listed in the case are the Chief of Staff to the President, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila; Paul Emmanuel; Jeremiah Imoukhede and Ituah Sylvester.
Other witnesses are civil servants working in the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (AGoF), Akimbo Shola and Adamu Balongu, a deputy superintendent of Police, were in the list.
Also listed as witnesses are Ojo Victor, Omeh Amarachukwu, and Wakili Saidu, all of whom were allegedly posted to work with Adeyemi at the non-existent agency.
Others are Joy Ngwoke, the owner of Kachi Hotel in Abuja, and Ven Okoriko, the pastor of St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, Maitama.
The documentary evidence expected to be tendered by the police include the police investigation report, Gbajabiamila’s petition dated Oct. 17, 2025; and Adeyemi’s fake presidential appointment letter dated March 8, 2024.
These also include the request for a note verbally by Adeyemi sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the approvals he got to open accounts with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), request for approval of self-accounting Adeyemi sent to the AGoF and the conveyance of approval for take-off of the PFIPC.
Other documents listed by the prosecution are a letter of request for collaboration with the ministry in the area of land acquisition and offices across the 36 states of the federation; statements of all the witnesses and that of the defendants, and pictures.
The police, in the court document, said “the prosecution shall at the trial call any other related witness or witnesses to prove its case.”
Adeyemi was alleged to have operated the fictitious agency from the 2nd Floor of the Federal Secretariat Complex in Abuja, Phase III, before his arrest.
NAN reports that President Bola Tinubu had, on Tuesday, directed the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to conduct a thorough investigation into the activities of the fictitious agency.
The president gave the ICPC 30 days to complete the investigation.
