The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has rejected the interim report from the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) regarding the bogus Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC). According to the party, the report fails to address how a non-existent organization managed to infiltrate government infrastructure.
National Publicity Secretary Bolaji Abdullahi argued that the focus should be on how the fake entity secured office space at the Federal Secretariat, assigned civil servants, obtained official vehicles, and received a N1.3 billion allocation in the 2026 budget. The ADC views the ICPC report as an attempt to shield officials rather than uncover the truth behind the security and procedural breaches.
The party highlighted that the N1.3 billion budgetary provision did not happen by chance and must have left an audit trail. They contend that simply prosecuting an individual named Adeyemi, while ignoring the systemic failures that allowed the fraud to persist, is insufficient. The ADC noted that forgery alone cannot explain how the entity successfully passed through multiple layers of government vetting.
The opposition party insists that the investigation must move beyond a single suspect to identify the public officials whose actions or negligence facilitated the scam. They have demanded the release of the full ICPC report and called for an independent panel to conduct a thorough inquiry, asserting that a government agency is ill-equipped to objectively probe its own institutions.
