PFIPC Scandal: ICPC Report Only Out To Cover Historic Scam – ADC

By Suleiman Anyalewechi 

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has rejected the interim report filed by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, on its investigation into the activities of the controversial Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC.

The ICPC Chairman, Musa Adamu Aliyu, SAN, had, on Thursday, August 6, 2026, submitted the Commission’s report to President Bola Tinubu.

The President had,  in the wake of the outbreak of the scandal, in July, directed the ICPC to, within 30 days, carry out an inquest to determine the extent of the involvement of Government officials and institutions in the activities of the phantom agency and its Director General, DG, Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi.

But dismissing the report, the ADC, in a statement signed by Bolaji Abdullahi, its spokesperson, on Saturday, insisted that the ICPC mission was more concerned about laundering Government’s battered image than establishing the facts behind the agency and those that allegedly enabled its activities.

This is as the party demanded the disclosure of all Government officials whose actions or negligence may have enabled the agency to acquire official legitimacy.

The ADC emphasized the urgent need for the Government to name and hold accountable all officials that were remotely,  or directly involved in the activities of the fake agency.

“Nigerians are not asking the Government to manufacture culprits; they are asking it to follow the evidence wherever it may lead.

“Anything short of this, this so-called investigation, will remain what it presently appears to be: an exercise designed less to discover the truth ,than to contain the historic embarrassment.” Abdullahi stated.

According to the opposition party, so far, all steps taken by the Government, including the ICPC’s investigation and others  appear primed to launder the smeared image of the Government.

The party expressed serious concern that the ICPC report downplayed the gravity of the issues at stake, by creating the impression that what happened was just procedural failure on the part of Government officials and institutions.

” The ICPC report appeared to have given the impression that what happened was mere failure in Government processes or procedures. This position is difficult to sustain in the light of publicly available evidence which establishes that this is not an error of omission, or a mere glitch in the system.

“Instead, what happened was a grand scam that could have been possible only with the active connivance of Government officials and institutions at the highest level.

“The ICPC report, also, comes gravely short by suggesting that there could be accomplices within Government, but mentioned none.

“Yet, an agency that was able to recommend only Adeyemi for prosecution on the basis of an investigation that the Commission itself has tagged as either ongoing or inconclusive.

” If all that the Commission had to present was a preliminary report, why not simply present it as confidential brief to the President, instead of making a public drama of it in a manner that potentially prejudiced the overall investigation and cast Adeyemi as the principal culprit?, “the ADC queried.

The party emphasized that Nigerians had expected the ICPC to come out with a report on how the supposed fake agency managed to secure an office space, recruited staff ,and had a budgetary allocation.

” Instead, what we are being offered, after weeks of so-called investigation is the same official narrative that Government had offered from the beginning; that what happened was a case of one clever impostor who, somehow, managed to outwit an entire Government.

” Even as self-indicting as that would appear, the facts already in the public domain make such a conclusion difficult to sustain. What is clear is that the so-called PFIPC was not a creation of any Nigerian law or legitimate executive approval.

“Yet this same organization managed to secure office space within the Federal Secretariat. If according to the ICPC report, Adeyemi had kicked down the door of the Secretariat office ,and allocated it to himself ,did he also deploy the civil servants to himself, allocated a reported N1.3 billion to himself in the 2026 Appropriation Act, allocated official vehicles with customized number plates to him, and deployed armed security to himself? 

“It is indeed impossible to answer yes to these questions and not conclude that this is the most incompetent and porous Government in Nigeria’s history”, the party added.