There Is No Phone Number On Letterhead Of Adeyemi’s PFIPC – Presidency

By Akinwale Kasali 

The scandal rocking the Office of the Chief of Staff and the Director General of the phantom  Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC, Adeniyi Adeyemi has taken another twist.

Temitope Ajayi, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, has stated that the letter-headed paper which PFIPC is flaunting has no phone number.

He stated that a missing telephone number on a State House letterhead exposed the forged appointment letter used to run the fake federal agency from the Federal Secretariat Complex in Abuja.

Ajayi added that the genuine letterhead carries no such number, unlike the one brandished by Adeyemi, the man at the centre of the scandal.

Making this disclosure, Ajayi, in an interview on Arise Television on Friday, while addressing the controversy surrounding the PFIPC, an entity the Presidency has since disowned, following allegations leveled against the CoS, Femi Gbajabiamila by the embattled PFIPC DG.

“On the genuine State House letterhead, there is no contact telephone number. On the purported appointment letter, however, there is one,” Ajayi said.

He stated that anybody familiar with how the Presidency operates would immediately spot the discrepancy which exposes the pure scam of the disowned agency. 

“So anybody who understands how the system works will know this is a pure scam and a forged document,” he said.

Ajayi insisted that presidential appointments do not originate from the office of the Chief of Staff.

“You have been covering the State House for a number of years, and we all know that the Chief of Staff does not make appointments. It is the President who makes appointments into agencies or extra-ministerial positions,” he said.

He further explained that the CoS role was limited to conveying the President’s approval to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, who then issues the appointment letter to the successful candidate.

“What the Chief of Staff does is convey the President’s approval to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, informing them that the President has approved or made a particular appointment. It is the office of the SGF that issues the appointment letter to appointees,” he said.

He added that it was procedurally wrong for anyone to brandish a letter of appointment purportedly originating directly from the Chief of Staff’s office.

“So, procedurally, it is even wrong for anyone to go about brandishing a letter of appointment originating from the office of the Chief of Staff. That is the first red flag,” he said.

Ajayi had earlier accused Adeyemi, in a post on his X handle, of being an “irredeemable con artist” exploiting Nigerians’ sensitivity to corruption to shield himself by dragging Gbajabiamila into the scandal.

Ajayi however did not rule out the fact that there are internal collaborators who may have helped Adeyemi operate inside government institutions.

“Well, it’s not impossible, because even the audacity 

to go and operate inside the government’s federal secretariat is enough to suggest that something could have gone wrong at some point,” he said.

Following this development, Adeyemi is facing an eight-count charge bordering on conspiracy, forgery and impersonation before the Federal High Court, Abuja, alongside two others identified as Femi and Anu, who are said to be at large.

Recall that Adeyemi was arrested on October 27, 2025, at his office in the Federal Secretariat Complex after a petition to the Department of State Services, DSS, and the Police over the scheme.

Though, Adeyemi had boldly said he was ready to face trial as he was not evading the law, having accused Gbajabiamila of demanding 48 per cent of the Council’s take-off grant, an allegation Gbajabiamila denies, and claimed he paid N400m to secure his appointment, with a balance of N200m still being demanded.

The former Speaker of the House of Representatives had on June 11, publicly disclaimed the Council, saying it had no official standing, while Presidential aide, Bayo Onanuga later disclosed that a key witness in the case died in a hotel fire five days before Adeyemi’s arrest.