Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, the Director-General (DG) of a “non-existent” Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) are to be arraigned before the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday.
Reports said Prince Adeyemi will be arraigned before Justice Mohammed Umar on a charge filed by the Nigeria Police Force (NPF).
Adeyemi is to be arraigned on an eight-count charge, marked FHC/ABJ/CR/562/2025, filed by Wisdom Madaki of the Legal Department of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) on November 27 last year.
Adeyemi and two others are listed as defendants in the charge bordering on forgery and impersonation and related offences.
They are to be arraigned before Justice Mohammed Umar, also of the Federal High Court, Abuja, who at the last mention of the case on June 16, when the arraignment was earlier planned, had to adjourn till July 14 upon information that Adeyemi was said to be indisposed.
The prosecution, in court documents, listed names of some of its planned witnesses and also identified some exhibits it hopes to rely on.
Some of the listed exhibits are the police investigation report, the petition by the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila to the police, dated Oct. 17, 2025; Adeyemi’s fake presidential appointment letter dated March 8, 2024, copy of a note verbally allegedly sent by Adeyemi to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the approvals he got to open accounts with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN); request for approval of self-accounting Adeyemi sent to the AGoF and the conveyance of approval for take-off of the PFIPC.
Other documents listed by the prosecution also include a letter of request for collaboration with the ministry in the area of land acquisition and offices across the 36 states of the federation; statements of all the witnesses and the defendants; and pictures.
The planned witnesses include Gbajabiamila, Paul Emmanuel, Jeremiah Imoukhede and Ituah Sylvester.
There are also civil servants working in the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (AGoF) along with Akimbo Shola and Adamu Balongu, a Deputy Superintendent of Police and Joy Ngwoke, who is said to be the owner of Kachi Hotel, Abuja where Adeyemi’s alleged accomplice, Dolapo Babatunde Tanimola purportedly died from a fire incident.
Also listed is Venerable Okoriko, said to be the pastor of St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, Maitama, where a funeral service was allegedly held for Tanimola.
Others are: Ojo Victor, Omeh Amarachukwu, and Wakili Saidu, all of whom were said to have been deployed to work in Adeyemi’s agency.
- Media Report