An ad hoc committee of the House of Representatives has preliminarily concluded that a letter claiming to appoint Adeniyi Adeyemi as director-general of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council was forged and never issued by the presidency.
In its preliminary report released on Wednesday, the committee said evidence obtained from the State House confirmed no such appointment was made or approved. The document had been presented as an official presidential communication and purported to carry the signature and authority of Chief of Staff to the President Femi Gbajabiamila.
The panel stated that Gbajabiamila neither issued nor signed the letter. It further found that the letterhead was not an authentic State House letterhead, the reference number did not match the official system used by the State House, and the document’s format, language and administrative features differed substantially from genuine official correspondence.
“The committee, therefore, preliminarily finds that the purported appointment letter was fabricated and falsely attributed to the presidency,” the report said. It described such conduct, if confirmed through criminal processes, as “a grave assault on the integrity of the office of the president and the official identity of the federal government.” The creation or use of a document designed to suggest presidential or chief-of-staff authorisation for someone to head a non-existent federal body, the committee added, cannot be dismissed as a minor administrative lapse and warrants serious investigative and prosecutorial attention.
The committee also reviewed a separate purported communication claiming approval for the start of an entity called the Presidential Economic Advisory Council. Evidence before it indicated the document did not originate from the presidency, the State House or any other competent federal authority. The panel said the material appeared to form part of a wider set of papers intended to give an unestablished organisation the false appearance of official government backing.
A third document examined by the committee was described as Presidential Executive Order No. 5 of 24 February 2026 and was presented as authorising the establishment or operation of the organisation. Available evidence showed it was not a genuine executive order and had not been issued or approved through lawful presidential processes. The report described the fabrication or falsification of an instrument represented as an executive order as “an exceptionally serious matter,” noting that such an order carries the full authority of the President of Nigeria. Any attempt to manufacture one in order to gain official recognition, financial benefit or public trust, it said, strikes at the foundation of lawful executive power.
No competent federal authority, whether the President, the Federal Executive Council, the National Assembly, the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation or any other body empowered to create such an agency, has produced an authentic record establishing that the organisation was ever created, approved or authorised, according to the committee.
The findings form part of the House panel’s ongoing investigation into the controversial Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council. The preliminary report underscores the seriousness with which the lawmakers view the alleged creation and circulation of false official documents.
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