I Wouldn’t Have Audacity To Meet Top Govt Officials Without Gbajabiamila’s Backing— ‘Fake’ Presidential Council DG

The alleged self-classd director-general of the non-existent Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council and Presidential Economic Advisory Council, Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, has denied any wrongdoing, insisting that the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, was in the know of his appointment.

Adeyemi, who is facing allegations of impersonation and related offences, spoke on Politics Today through a telephone interview, expressing confidence that he would be vindicated by the court of law.

When asked whether he was ready to face the law, he said: “Definitely, if I am wrong, let the court of law do that; if I am right, let the court of law do the right thing. Do you know what? Since the matter is in the court, let the court of competent jurisdiction vindicate me because I am ready to clear my name. Let the court take its course. Since my lawyers are involved, everybody will follow us, they will monitor the whole thing. Let the court of competent jurisdiction do the needful. I have a letter of appointment. However, since the matter is in the court, I won’t be able to say much about it, I am on medication. I am a bit down, I am sick.”

“No, I am not a criminal. However, the court will do justice to that,” he added.

On whether Gbajabiamila has knowledge about his appointment, he said: “Yes.”

He also asserted that he got the confirmation of appointment through Gbajabiamila’s office, saying: “Yes, let the court vindicate all those things.”

“I want Nigerians to know that, for one second, let us assume the agency does not exist, would I have the temerity, the audacity, to be going all over the country, meeting the head of ministry, department and agency, if I know that the agency does not exist, or as they allege me that I cooked up everything? No Nigerian can dare do that. I could not have summoned the courage to be going from one place to another for almost three years. Nigeria is not a banana republic,” he concluded.