The Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, has called for the immediate removal of Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, over allegations linking him to corruption involving a purported government agency known as the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC.
In a statement issued on Friday, July 3, 2026, by National Publicity Secretary Osa Director, the opposition party said it is alarmed by claims involving Gbajabiamila and Prince Mathew Adeniyi Adeyemi, who presents himself as the Director-General of PFIPC. The NDC alleges that the agency is non-existent and was used to siphon public funds with Gbajabiamila’s active collusion.
According to the party, Adeyemi claims PFIPC received allocations in the 2026 budget and opened a domiciliary account, a pound sterling account, and a Treasury Single Account at the Central Bank of Nigeria despite the Presidency’s denial of the agency’s existence, and it questions how a fictitious body could meet documentation requirements for such accounts or how the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation could have processed the documents.
The NDC also cites Adeyemi’s claim that the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation approved 314 staff positions for PFIPC without the knowledge of the Presidency or the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.
Further, Adeyemi alleges he secured his appointment through Gbajabiamila after paying ₦600 million, with ₦400 million paid through proxies and ₦200 million outstanding, and that the Chief of Staff demanded 48 percent of PFIPC’s ₦27.39 billion take-off grant, a request he rejected that led to a public dispute.
The NDC also raised concerns about the death of Babatunde Tanimola, described as an intermediary between Adeyemi and Gbajabiamila, who reportedly died in a hotel fire in Utako, Abuja, on October 22, 2025, a day after the Chief of Staff’s petition was received by police, and about Adeyemi’s claim of surviving multiple assassination attempts.
The party says the allegations reflect a pattern of institutionalized corruption and the sale of appointments, and it is demanding Gbajabiamila’s removal to allow an unbiased probe, an independent panel to investigate PFIPC’s budget, accounts, staffing and transactions, investigations into Tanimola’s death and the alleged threats against Adeyemi with witness protection for him, forensic analysis of documents signed by the Chief of Staff, and inquiries by the EFCC, ICPC and Nigeria Police Force.
The Presidency maintains that PFIPC does not exist, and Gbajabiamila has not publicly responded to the allegations, which remain unproven in court.
