Exclusive: Adeyemi’s PFIPC Office Re-allocated To Tinubu’s Special Adviser
By Kazeem Akintunde
The offices allocated to the fake Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, (PFIPC), on the second floor, Phase 3 at the Federal Secretariat, Abuja has now been re-allocated to the former INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega, The Glitters Online Investigation has revealed.
Recall that President Bola Tinubu had, on March 7, 2025, named Jega as his Special Adviser and Coordinator of the Presidential Livestock Reform. The appointment was officially announced by the Presidency to drive meaningful progress in the nation’s livestock sector.
The newly created office’s Head and his support staff could not get office accommodation until November last year, after the fake agency that occupied the space was exposed by the Chief of Staff to the President, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila.
Sources in the Ministry, which mainly houses staff of the Federal Ministry of Health, informed The Glitters Online that the PFIPC office was shut down in October last year after the arrest of its ‘Director-General’, Prince Matthew Adeniyi Adeyemi by the Police.
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) had, in November, 2024, allocated the office to the PFIPC after it received and acted on correspondence submitted in the Council’s names.
The correspondence, dated November 21, 2024, was signed by the Permanent Secretary, General Services Office, Nnamdi Maurice Mbaeri, on behalf of the SGF.
Attached to it was Adeyemi’s November 7, 2024 request for office accommodation for the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council.
Registry stamps show that the letter was received by the SGF’s office on November 12, 2024. In his accompanying letter to the SGF, Adeyemi presented the PFIPC as a Federal Government investment promotion agency responsible for attracting foreign direct investment into Nigeria.
He claimed that the Council “also serves as the resource and coordinating centre for the Nation’s Foreign Investment Promotion activities – a One-Stop-Shop for Investments centre coordinating investment-related activities across ministries, departments and agencies and promoting Nigeria as a preferred investment destination.”
According to the letter, the Council “facilitates the interaction between public and private sectors, and has an active role in policy advocacy and promotes a positive image of Nigeria as a country that is attractive to foreign investors.”
The letter added that the Council “liaises with all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of government to develop, compile, and collate data and information, serving as the repository of information on investment opportunities in Nigeria.”
It further stated that “as a one-stop investment centre, it coordinates all actions to ensure that investors, both potential and existing, receive the best possible support from the MDAs.”
However, when Adeyemi was arrested after the Chief of Staff to the President, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila wrote to security agencies, the PFIPC office was hurriedly shut down and re-allocated to Prof Jega after President Tinubu named him as his Special Adiviser and Coordinator, Livestock Development.
Staff in the office of the Special Adviser told The Glitters Online that Jega and his team moved into the new office in December last year after it was re-allocated to them.
‘’Yes, we were told that the office was initially allocated to the agency but we moved in here in December last year’’, a source told The Glitters Online.
When asked if he is aware of the new office of the agency, the source answered in the negative.
There are about 10 offices on each side of the wing that initially housed the fake agency. When this reporter visited the office last week, it had been repainted, with nothing to indicate that it was formerly used by the fake agency.
