The Presidency has called on the Department of State Services (DSS), the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Nigeria Police Force to expose the internal collaborators who allegedly enabled Prince Matthew Adeniyi Adeyemi to run a fictitious federal agency for months. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, made the call in a statement, describing Adeyemi as an "irredeemable con artist" exploiting public sensitivity around corruption to shield himself while dragging Chief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila into what he called a multi-billion-naira fraud scheme. Adeyemi is accused of posing as director-general of the non-existent Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), forging presidential appointment letters, operating 34 bank accounts under fictitious government bodies, hosting foreign diplomats, and even opening an account with the Central Bank of Nigeria. "What is not in doubt is that internal collaborators enabled Adeniyi to get this far," Ajayi said, adding that investigators "must now unravel" the network and that "everyone found to have played a role should be arrested and prosecuted." While acknowledging the systemic failures that allowed the alleged scheme to persist, Ajayi credited officials at the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with flagging the irregularities that ultimately exposed it β€” arguing this showed the system was capable of catching wrongdoing rather than being wholly complicit in it. He also pushed back on framing the episode as evidence of high-level institutional complicity, insisting the facts instead show government mechanisms detecting and halting the fraud. The controversy traces back to October 2025, when the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission first complained that PFIPC's activities conflicted with its own statutory mandate, prompting Gbajabiamila to petition the DSS and police over what he described as forged documents bearing his signature. Adeyemi was arrested that October and has faced an eight-count criminal charge β€” including conspiracy, forgery and impersonation β€” before the Federal High Court in Abuja since November 2025, with his next court date set for July 27, 2026. The case escalated further after reports surfaced that PFIPC had been allocated more than ₦1.3 billion in the 2026 Appropriation Act despite the Presidency's insistence that the council never legally existed β€” a detail that has fueled broader questions about how a fabricated agency secured budget recognition, CBN accounts and reported meetings with institutions including the EFCC itself. Adeyemi has disputed the Presidency's account, alleging in turn that Gbajabiamila's office solicited a share of the council's proposed ₦27.4 billion take-off grant β€” an allegation the Presidency has not substantiated and which remains unverified. Opposition figures, including the Nigeria Democratic Congress, have seized on the scandal to demand Gbajabiamila's removal, while rights lawyer Femi Falana has argued the Presidency lacks the constitutional authority to unilaterally clear anyone implicated in the matter.