The House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) has raised serious concerns over documents that allegedly listed President Bola Tinubu and several senior government officials as members of the organisation’s governing board.
CDA News Nigeria gathered that the chairman of the committee, Yusuf Gagdi, disclosed this on Thursday during an investigative hearing where lawmakers grilled the Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Shehu Mohammed, over the issuance of seven vehicle number plates to the PFIPC. The lawmakers were particularly concerned about why the FRSC approved the number plates despite what they described as apparent irregularities in documents submitted by the organisation.
According to Gagdi, the purported PFIPC governing board included President Tinubu; George Akume, Secretary to the Government of the Federation; Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory; the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation; the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria; the Attorney-General of the Federation; and the ministers of finance, aviation, agriculture and food security, interior, budget and national planning, marine and blue economy, police affairs, transport, works, and power.
CDA News Nigeria reports that the committee chairman argued the FRSC should have raised red flags over a document that purportedly named the President and members of his cabinet as members of the council’s governing board, describing such a composition as highly unusual for an organisation of PFIPC’s nature. Gagdi also questioned the agency’s acceptance of a purported mandate from the organisation that allegedly lacked official government security features.
“We are trying to expose the leakages so that agencies can close these gaps going forward. It is not to indict anybody,” Gagdi said, stressing that the panel’s focus was on strengthening institutional safeguards rather than assigning blame at this stage of the investigation.
He further noted that the unusual composition of the purported governing board, combined with the nature of the submitted documents, should have prompted the FRSC to independently verify the organisation’s status with the Presidency and other relevant government institutions before approving its request for vehicle plate numbers.
In his response, Mohammed defended the FRSC’s handling of the matter, telling the committee that the agency had followed its standard operating procedures throughout the application and verification process. CDA News Nigeria gathered that the Corps Marshal disclosed that the FRSC received PFIPC’s application on April 4, 2025, followed by a reminder dated April 11, with both documents said to have been signed by one Prince Adeyemi Adeniyi.
The hearing forms part of a broader legislative probe into the operations and legitimacy of the PFIPC, with the committee expected to continue its investigation as lawmakers seek to establish how the organisation obtained government-linked documentation and whether due diligence processes across relevant agencies were properly followed.
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