Gbajabiamila: Tinubu told to urgently probe N1.3bn allocation to PFIPC

Accountability organisation BudgIT has called connected President Bola Tinubu to bid an autarkic probe into the N1.3 cardinal allocation to the purported Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC, successful the 2026 Appropriation Act.

The enactment made the telephone pursuing the Presidency’s presumption that the bureau does not exist.

In a connection issued on Friday, BudgIT questioned however the alleged bureau secured bureau abstraction wrong the Federal Secretariat, operated respective Central Bank of Nigeria accounts, received a budgetary allocation of N1,302,978,784 successful the 2026 budget, and reportedly engaged authorities institutions, improvement partners and diplomatic missions earlier concerns were raised implicit its legitimacy.

According to the organisation, a reappraisal of erstwhile Appropriation Acts showed that the PFIPC, besides referred to arsenic the Presidential Economic Advisory Council, PEAC, was not listed arsenic a budgeted entity nether the Presidency successful the 2023, 2024 and 2025 budgets.

It said the agency’s quality successful the 2026 Appropriation Act raised questions astir the process done which it was introduced and approved.

BudgIT said the improvement highlighted long...