- Adeyemi is now pulling back from his earlier direct accusations.
- He claims a late friend, Dolapo Tanimola, was the sole go-between, meaning no one alive can confirm the claims.
- He says he’ll hand over documents to the DSS/police, as Tinubu’s 30-day ICPC probe runs in parallel.
Adeniyi Adeyemi, the self-styled Director-General of the “phantom” Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), has softened his earlier claims against President Bola Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, now saying he is “unsure” of his actual role in his controversial appointment and admits he never met him physically.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that, speaking in a Tuesday interview with social media influencer VeryDarkMan (real name Martins Vincent Otse), Adeyemi said he never met Gbajabiamila in person “before and after he was appointed to the role,” and that his late friend, Dolapo Tanimola, allegedly facilitated the transaction on his behalf.
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He claimed to have spoken with Gbajabiamila three times through Tanimola, but never on video call.
The comments mark a notable pull-back from the certainty of his June 26 press conference, where he had directly accused Gbajabiamila of demanding a cut of a proposed government grant and receiving ₦400 million through a proxy.
This time, he stopped short of standing fully behind those claims: “I would not say he is lying, and I won’t say he is saying the truth,” Adeyemi said, adding that this was why he had pleaded with President Tinubu to set up an investigative panel to “unravel the truth.”
Notably, Adeyemi’s new remarks don’t amount to the retraction Gbajabiamila’s lawyers demanded in their July 6 cease-and-desist letter, which gave him 72 hours to withdraw the allegations or face a ₦10 billion defamation suit and criminal defamation complaint.
Rather than backing down entirely, Adeyemi has shifted the claims from firsthand accusation to something he says only his late intermediary could confirm, a framing that keeps the door open without directly contradicting his earlier statements.
Adeyemi says he has documented evidence to support his claims and intends to submit it to security agencies.
“Any moment from now, I will go to the DSS or police to submit all the documents I have to help them investigate and look into this matter,” he said, adding that he wants his documents authenticated and verified.
This offer comes right on the heels of President Tinubu’s directive to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), issued the same day, ordering a 30-day investigation into the PFIPC and all related matters, including the forged documents, bank accounts, and any officials who may have been involved.
Adeyemi’s stated willingness to hand over documents positions him as a cooperating party in that investigation, even as he himself remains an accused party in a separate forgery trial before the Federal High Court.
The Late Friend At The Centre Of It All
Tanimola’s role is emerging as a key thread in the saga.
Adeyemi alleges that Tanimola was the sole link between him and Gbajabiamila, meaning the one person who could reportedly corroborate or dispute the claims is no longer alive to do so.
Tanimola reportedly died in a fire days before Adeyemi’s October 2025 arrest, a detail Adeyemi has previously flagged as suspicious and one he has called for an investigative panel to look into. The ICPC’s 30-day probe is expected to investigate all the claims.
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Adeyemi is due back in court on July 27 over the forgery charges, even as the ICPC investigation, ordered by the President, runs in parallel.
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