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The Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) has demanded the immediate removal of Femi Gbajabiamila as Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, alleging his complicity in a sprawling corruption scandal built around a phantom federal agency.
In a press statement issued Friday, the NDC’s National Publicity Secretary, Osa Director, said the party was “alarmed by the damning allegations” linking Gbajabiamila to Prince Mathew Adeniyi Adeyemi, the self-styled Director-General of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), an agency the Presidency insists never existed.
According to the NDC, the non-existent outfit allegedly opened a domiciliary account, a Pound Sterling account, and a Treasury Single Account with the Central Bank of Nigeria, despite the stringent documentation such accounts normally require.
The party also noted that the Head of Civil Service reportedly approved 314 staff positions for the agency, questioning how such a move could bypass the Presidency and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation entirely.
At the centre of the fallout is a bribery allegation: Adeyemi claims Gbajabiamila demanded 48 per cent of the agency’s ₦27,395,510,136 take-off grant, a request he says he rejected. Adeyemi also admitted paying ₦400 million toward securing his appointment, with a ₦200 million balance left outstanding, a default the NDC says triggered the Presidency’s public disavowal of the agency.
The party’s statement points to darker undertones as well: the death of Babatunde Tanimola, the alleged intermediary between Adeyemi and Gbajabiamila, in a hotel fire in Utako, Abuja, just a day after the Chief of Staff’s petition reached police.
Adeyemi has separately alleged multiple attempts on his life, including an attack on the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway, and says he now fears elimination by “certain forces in government.”
The NDC’s demands include Gbajabiamila’s removal to allow an unbiased probe, an independent investigative panel, witness protection for Adeyemi, a forensic review of all documents signed by the Chief of Staff, and full-scale investigations by the EFCC, ICPC, and Nigeria Police Force. The party said it would not accept “a mere defensive press release” as a substitute for accountability.
The Presidency has firmly denied the allegations, insisting the PFIPC is fictitious and that Adeyemi forged his appointment documents.
Police have already filed an eight-count charge of forgery and impersonation against him, with a court hearing scheduled for July 27.
