On Wednesday, the Chairman of the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee investigating the alleged inclusion of the purported Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) in the Federal Government’s budget, Yusuf Gagdi, has dismissed claims that the panel focused its investigation on the organisation’s Director-General, Adeniyi Adeyemi, while ignoring Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday, the lawmaker was responding to suggestions that the committee’s probe had concentrated on Adeyemi, who claimed that Gbajabiamila issued him a letter appointing him as Director-General of the purported agency.
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Gagdi said the committee investigated everyone connected to the controversy and insisted that its probe was guided by evidence rather than the identities of those involved.
He explained that the committee did not invite either Adeyemi or Gbajabiamila to appear before it during its public hearings because the central focus of the House resolution was not specifically about either individual.
According to him, the committee’s mandate was to establish how the purported agency found its way into the machinery of government and the Federal Budget Framework.
He said any invitation issued by the committee had to be based on evidence gathered during the investigation, adding that where such evidence did not warrant an invitation, the committee had no reason to summon the person involved
