Questions Over Approval By SGF To “Fake” PFIPC To Recruit 300 Personnel

Despite denials of its existence,  Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, (PFIPC), received an official approval from the Federal Government to recruit 300 members of staff.

This has triggered questions:

“If the Presidency insists that the PFIPC was a fabrication from beginning to end, how did a formal recruitment waiver emerge from the Office of the Head of the Civil Service?

“How did an agency said not to exist have an “Approved Establishment” upon which recruitment was authorised?

“And how did detailed recruitment instructions involving the Budget Office, Federal Character requirements and official monitoring come to be issued?”

According to documents released on August 7, 2025, the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation issued a formal waiver approving the recruitment of 300 personnel for the PFIPC. 

The letter, signed by Mimi Abu, Director of Organisation Design and Development, was necessary because the Federal Government had placed an embargo on general recruitment into the civil service. 

In other words, this was not an ordinary approval. It was a special exemption given to Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi.

It reportedly authorised the recruitment of 10 Directors on Grade Level 17.

20 Assistant Directors on Grade Level 15.