Fake agency scandal: Adeyemi arrested over failure to appear for arraignment in court
The self-acclaimed Director-General of the non-existent Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC, Adeniyi Adeyemi, has been arrested.
According to TVC, his arrest came moments after Justice Mohammed Umar of the Federal High Court in Abuja issued a warrant for his arrest.
The details of Adeyemi’s arrest were still sketchy as of the time of filing this report.
Adeyemi was billed to take his plea on an eight-count charge marked FHC/ABJ/CR/562/2025, relating to forgery, fraud, and impersonation.
Although the matter was listed as No. 12 on the court’s cause list, the defendant failed to appear for his arraignment, even though a lawyer, Mr. Genesis Francis, announced his appearance on his behalf.
Adeyemi had failed to appear in court on Tuesday for his arraignment over alleged certificate forgery.
He was billed to take his plea before Justice Mohammed Umar on an eight-count charge marked FHC/ABJ/CR/562/2025, which relates to forgery, fraud and impersonation.
The charge against Adeyemi and two other defendants was filed on November 27, 2025, by a police prosecutor, Wisdom Madaki.
Witnesses billed to testify in the matter include the Chief of Staff to the President, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, Paul Emmanuel, Jeremiah Imoukhede and Ituah Sylvester.
Others are civil servants working in the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, OAGF, Akimbo Shola and Adamu Balongu, as well as a deputy superintendent of police.
Recall that the self-acclaimed Director-General, whose whereabouts remain unknown, said in an interview on Channels Television on Monday that his withdrawal from public view was due to alleged threats to his life.
He also dismissed the insinuation that he was hiding from law enforcement agencies in a bid to evade investigation into his involvement in the alleged PFIPC fraud.
Adeyemi equally maintained his allegation that he paid N400 million through a proxy to President Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, Gbajabiamila, to secure his appointment as DG of the disputed agency.
He claimed that those from whom he borrowed the N400 million he used to secure the appointment had since dragged him before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
