PFIPC scandal: ADC rejects Tinubu’s probe, demands independent panel

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has rejected President Bola Tinubu’s determination to manus the probe into the alleged Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC, ungraded to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, insisting that lone an autarkic judicial sheet tin guarantee a credible outcome.

The presumption was contained successful a connection issued by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, on July 8, 2026.

According to the statement, the enactment acknowledged the President’s directive ordering the ICPC to analyse the alleged activities of the PFIPC but argued that assigning the probe to an bureau nether the Executive could undermine nationalist assurance successful the process.

“The Presidency that is astatine the precise bosom of a historical ungraded specified arsenic this does not person the credibility to authorise an probe into a substance that has brought an full state into disrepute,” the connection read.

The ADC further called connected President Tinubu to represent an autarkic judicial panel, insisting that the probe should find whether the disputed assignment letters and authoritative documen...