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Alleged certificate forgery: PFIPC’s self-proclaimed DG fails to appear in court
The self-proclaimed Director-General of the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC), Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, failed to appear before the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday for his scheduled arraignment over allegations of certificate forgery.
Adeyemi was expected to take his plea before Justice Mohammed Umar on an eight-count charge, marked FHC/ABJ/CR/562/2025, bordering on alleged forgery, fraud and impersonation.
Although the case was listed as the 12th matter on the court’s cause list, the defendant was absent when the proceedings were due to commence. The court is expected to determine the next course of action regarding the matter.
The charge against Adeyemi and two other defendants was filed on November 27, 2025, by a police prosecutor, Wisdom Madaki.
Witnesses billed to testify in the matter include the Chief of Staff to the President, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, Paul Emmanuel, Jeremiah Imoukhede and Ituah Sylvester.
Others are civil servants working in the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, OAGF, Akimbo Shola and Adamu Balongu, as well as a deputy superintendent of police.
Recall that the self-acclaimed Director-General, whose whereabouts remain unknown, said in an interview on Channels Television on Monday that his withdrawal from public view was due to alleged threats to his life.
He also dismissed the insinuation that he was hiding from law enforcement agencies in a bid to evade investigation into his involvement in the alleged PFIPC fraud.
Adeyemi equally maintained his allegation that he paid N400 million through a proxy to President Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, Gbajabiamila, to secure his appointment as DG of the disputed agency.
He claimed that those from whom he borrowed the N400 million he used to secure the appointment had since dragged him before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
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