Questions Over Approval By SGF To “Fake” PFIPC To Recruit 300 Personnel

By Ayodele Oni 

Despite denials of its existence,  Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, (PFIPC), received an official approval from the Federal Government to recruit 300 members of staff.

This has triggered questions:

“If the Presidency insists that the PFIPC was a fabrication from beginning to end, how did a formal recruitment waiver emerge from the Office of the Head of the Civil Service?

“How did an agency said not to exist have an “Approved Establishment” upon which recruitment was authorised?

“And how did detailed recruitment instructions involving the Budget Office, Federal Character requirements and official monitoring come to be issued?”

According to documents released on August 7, 2025, the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation issued a formal waiver approving the recruitment of 300 personnel for the PFIPC. 

The letter, signed by Mimi Abu, Director of Organisation Design and Development, was necessary because the Federal Government had placed an embargo on general recruitment into the civil service. 

In other words, this was not an ordinary approval. It was a special exemption given to Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi.

It reportedly authorised the recruitment of 10 Directors on Grade Level 17.

20 Assistant Directors on Grade Level 15.

Dozens of administrative officers across various grade levels.

45 planning officers.

32 commercial officers.

22 investment promotion officers.

26 accountants.

10 legal officers.

And procurement officers, programme analysts, information officers, statisticians, technical officers, confidential secretaries, drivers and several other categories of staff, bringing the total approved positions to 300.

Even more remarkable is the language of the letter itself.

It states that the approval was “based on and limited to the 2025 Approved Establishment position of the Agency.” Read that line again!

Think about that for a moment.

Not the “purported agency.”

Not the “alleged agency.”

The Agency according to the head of service of the federation.

The letter also directed the PFIPC to obtain clearance from the Budget Office before recruitment, comply with the Federal Character principle, reserve five percent of the positions for persons living with disabilities.

It was also directed to ensure officials from the Office of the Head of the Civil Service monitored the exercise, and submit the names of all successful candidates for official records.

These are not instructions one ordinarily associates with an organisation that supposedly never existed.

Then came another interesting detail.

Just 24 hours after the waiver was issued, Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi publicly celebrated the approval, thanking President Bola Tinubu for what he described as the government’s support.

 He also announced that approval had been secured to establish PFIPC offices in all 36 states and to roll out 127 international offices around the world.

Whether those additional claims were true is a separate matter.

But the larger question refuses to go away.

These are no longer questions that can be brushed aside with a simple denial. They deserve clear, verifiable answers from every institution whose name appears in this paper trail.

Because from the look of things, Nigerians may have been taken for a very expensive ride.