‘FAKE’ AGENCY: Everyone knew something for seven months, but nobody did anything
Budget Office: ‘Not one Naira,’ and not our fault either If any single appearance before the ad-hoc committee has captured the shape of this scandal, it came on Friday, July 24, when the Director-General of the Budget Office of the Federation, Mr Tanimu Yakubu, took his turn at the witness table and delivered, line-by-line, the most complete distancing exercise yet.
The answer that raises a bigger question Buried inside the Foreign Affairs Ministry’s own defence is the detail that has most alarmed the committee: It wrote to the Office of the National Security Adviser on October 16, 2025, “requesting clarification on the status of Prince Adeyemi Adeniyi Matthew as Director-General of the PFIPC.
Yet no public disclaimer followed for about seven months, not until June 2026, by which time PFIPC had already been folded into a national budget that had passed through committee scrutiny in both chambers of the National Assembly and been signed into law by the president himself.
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