By Daniel Peters
President Bola Tinubu has been urged to set up an independent investigative panel to unravel the disputed status of the Presidential Economic Advisory Council and Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council.
The appeal came from the embattled Director General of the Council, Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, while briefing Newsmen on Thursday in Abuja.
Prince Adeyemi noted that the panel should include members of credible civil society organizations, international Organisations, Media, religious and traditional institutions.
“I stand before you today under a cloud of public misrepresentation, institutional denial, and deliberate attempts to silence legitimate questions that concern matters of national interest”, he stated.
“Firstly, let me wish Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, the Chief of Staff to the President, a happy birthday. I’m aware today is his birthday. This press conference is also a birthday gift to him. While celebrating, he should remember that Nigerians are waiting for him to tell the truth about what he knows about Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council and Presidential Economic Advisory Council.
When pain is inflicted, a response is inevitable. And I will not allow my name to be used as a convenient shield in a matter that Nigerians deserve full transparency on.
“On 11th June 2026, Hon. Olufemi Hakeem Gbajabiamila issued a disclaimer distancing the Office of the Chief of Staff to the President from Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), alongside the Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC)”.
I reject outright any attempt to reduce this matter to simple denials without addressing the core questions that Nigerians are now asking.
The issue is no longer about personalities. It is about contradictions that demand answers.
“Let’s assume for one second that all what the chief of staff published were right, that the agency does not exist. Then how did the agency’s name get into the 2026 appropriation budget pages 50 and 51, Prince Adeyemi asked?
If the agency does not exist, yet found its way into the Nigerian national budget, what that means is that the entire 2026 appropriation budget is a fraud and should be discarded.
What the chief of staff to the president is now saying by his denial published in various national dailies is that our 109 Distinguished Senators, where We have Seasoned administrators, former Governors and diverse professional experts are INCOMPETENT not to have discovered the fake Agency in the National Budget. What It means is that Our 360 Reps members of the Federal Republic of Nigeria are rubber stamped, as they are being speculated.
Because the national budget does not emerge in isolation. It passes through multiple layers of technical drafting, executive coordination, ministerial inputs, budget office review, and finally legislative scrutiny by both chambers of the National Assembly where COS has meritoriously served for good 20 Years and rose from Minority to Majority leaders and Speaker for 4 years.
And if they are indeed present in official documentation, what does that imply about the integrity of the process that produced and approved those documents?
My distinguished media practitioners, why do questions persist regarding administrative processes, budgetary lines, and institutional communications allegedly connected to this Agency if it don’t exist? The same acclaimed non existent Agency has Domiciliary Account, Pounds Account and Treasury Single Account all domicile in Central Bank of Nigeria.
Please note that the process of opening an account with CBN starts from Office of Accountant General of the Federation.
How did the Agency get an office space at the Federal Secretariat and operate for over a year? Abi SGF Office with 6 Permanent Secretaries and numerous Directors aren’t driven by pot of soups?
These are not trivial matters but questions at the sensitivity of governance, accountability, and public trust.
It has been alleged in certain quarters that there were attempts or considerations by the chief of staff to use security institutions in Nigeria to frame my diplomatic engagements as espionage or disloyalty. I categorically reject any attempt to criminalize lawful activity.
Now I want to put this out for clarity’s sake: the major rationale behind the disagreement between myself and the Chief of Staff is because he allegedly requested 48% of the take-off grant(#27,395,510,136) from the same agency which he denies it exists to which I rejected. After He collected a total sum of 400 Million by proxy with remaining balance of 200 Million to secure the said appointment.
Let it be known: silence will not resolve this matter. Only truth will.
I therefore passionately appeal to Our Father, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR for the immediate establishment of an independent investigative panel to:
Examine the Mysterious death of Mr. Babatunde Tanimola, who is the intermediary between Myself and COS, who Police claimed He died through fire accident at an hotel in Utako, Abuja on 22nd of October 2025 a day after COS petition was received by the Police.
To Kindly investigate several attempted assassination to My life especially the one that occurred on Sunday 7th September 2025 along Abuja – Kaduna Expressway where I narrowly escaped. Several belongings, Vital documents were carted away including 2 phones which consisted a lot of information. I reported the case to the Police and Department of State Security. I was told the phones were tracked to Gombe State but an insider Confided to me that There was an order from the above to refrain from taking any further actions.
To compel the Chief of Staff to produce all the Official documents He has signed since assumption into office for Forensic Analysis because He who alleges must proof and He Who Comes Into Equity Must Come With Clean Hands.
To compel the Chief of Staff to step aside pending the outcome of the panel
To Review budgetary references and institutional records
Publish findings transparently.
The purpose is clarity: not denial versus counter-denial.
If I am wrong, let an independent process prove it. If Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila is right, let it confirm it.
To Nigerians: focus on facts, not distractions.
I remain willing to cooperate fully with any lawful inquiry.
“Let the investigation speak. Let the documents speak. Let the truth emerge”, Prince Adeyemi concluded.
