Reps Summon NSA Ribadu as Secret November Letter Exposes Government Knew Fake Investment Council Was Illegal All Along

A major administrative and national security scandal has erupted in Abuja after revelations at the National Assembly exposed that top security authorities disowned a fictitious presidential agency in late 2025, yet failed to shut down its operations before it infiltrated government channels.

The shocking disclosure was made before the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee investigating the phantom Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC). Testifying before the panel, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Dunoma Umar Ahmed, revealed that the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) sent an official letter dated November 26, 2025, confirming that the agency and its self-proclaimed Director-General, Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew, were entirely unknown to the Federal Government.

According to Ahmed, the ministry was first approached by Prince Adeyemi on three separate occasions requesting official collaboration and diplomatic clearance to host a global investment summit in Nigeria. After noticing suspicious discrepancies in the documents submitted, the ministry initiated due diligence on October 16, 2025, writing to ONSA for verification. ONSA’s subsequent cross-checks with the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF) and the Chief of Staff to the President confirmed that no such council had ever been established by law or executive order.

However, the revelation raised serious alarm among lawmakers who questioned why the phantom entity was allowed to continue operating, interacting with foreign diplomats, attempting to open dollar accounts at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and allegedly securing allocations in the 2026 budget despite being flagged as an illegal operation eight months prior.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs did the right thing by detecting discrepancies and notifying the National Security Adviser,” stated House Ad-hoc Committee Chairman, Hon. Yusuf Gagdi. “The NSA responded in writing that the agency is completely illegal. The crucial question now is: what action did our national security apparatus take after making that discovery? If an agency is established as fictitious, immediate law enforcement action ought to have followed to prevent it from embarrassing the country diplomatically.”

Displeased by the apparent lapse in security enforcement, the House committee formally issued a summons directing the National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, to appear before lawmakers to explain why the illegal syndicate was not immediately dismantled.

The committee’s probe has turned up concerning operational loopholes across federal institutions. While the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation denied granting office space to the fake group, representatives from the apex bank confirmed that two domiciliary accounts in US Dollars and British Pounds were initiated for the entity, though they remained unoperated. As the parliamentary inquiry continues, lawmakers have vowed to uncover how internal collaborators aided the phantom council in impersonating government authority.