As the controversy over the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), continues mounting, the Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, Femi Gbajabiamila, through his lawyer, has ordered the ‘Director General’ of the controversial Agency, Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, to take down all materials, including transcripts, videos and recordings, from all platforms, linking him to murder, bribery and other criminal conduct.
The retraction demand by Gbajabiamila is contained in a letter dated Monday, July 6, 2026, and signed by ‘Kemi Pinheiro (SAN) for Pinheiro LP, directed at Adeyemi, who has been listed at the Federal High Court, Abuja, in Charge No: FHC/ABJ/CR/652/2026, FRN v. Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew & Ors, on allegations of forgery, including forging an appointment letter bearing Gbajabiamila’s purported signature and counterfeiting Presidential Letter-Headed Papers to pass himself off as a government official fraudulently.
The letter followed a June 25 press conference at which Adeyemi, accused Gbajabiamila of demanding a share of the council’s alleged take-off grant, receiving money through proxies, abusing his office and participating in a criminal cover-up.
The letter which listed nine allegations from the press conference noted that Adeyemi accused Gbajabiamila of demanding 48 per cent of the council’s alleged ₦27.4 billion take-off grant, equivalent to roughly ₦12.5 billion, and of receiving N400m through proxies in connection with appointments linked to the entity and further described Gbajabiamila as “a murderer” and “an assassin” during the briefing.
The lawyer while describing all nine allegations as not only false but gravely defamatory, made it clear that Gbajabiamila had never had any contact whatsoever with Adeyemi and threatened a ₦10 billion defamation suit against Adeyemi over the allegations.
According to him the allegations were designed to portray Gbajabiamila as corrupt, dishonest, criminally culpable, morally bankrupt, administratively incompetent, a murderer and unfit to occupy public office.
Gbajabiamila therefore demanded that Adeyemi publish a full retraction and apology in at least five national newspapers and across all social media platforms through which the press conference was disseminated, and provide a written undertaking to refrain from further publications against him.
