BREAKING: Senate rejects motion to investigate PFIPC scandal

The Senate on Wednesday rejected a question to motorboat a broad probe into the budgetary allocation, operations and contention surrounding the purported Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC.

The determination was initiated by the legislator representing Kano South, Suleiman Kawu, who raised a constituent of bid during plenary.

Citing Order 9 and Rule 9(c) of the Senate Standing Orders (2026), Kawu presented a question titled, ‘Urgent Need to Investigate the Budgetary Allocation, Operations and Controversy surrounding the purported Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) to safeguard the Integrity of the Senate and the Federal Government’.

According to him, “The Senate notes with interest that, successful caller weeks, the nationalist abstraction has been inundated with allegations, controversies, accusations and counter-accusations concerning an entity known arsenic the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC).”

Following the presumption of the motion, the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau Jibrin, who presided implicit the plenary, ruled that the substance should not beryllium debated, noting that the Executive had already taken steps to code it.

Jibrin told lawmakers that President Bola Tinubu had directed the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, to analyse the matter, urging the Senate to all...