Senate again declines probe of PFIPC

The Senate has again rejected a question seeking an autarkic probe into the contention involving the Presidency and Adeniyi Adeyemi, who allegedly presented himself arsenic the Director-General of the Presidential Economic Advisory Council/Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PEAC/PFIPC).

Senator Suleiman Kawu raised the substance during Wednesday’s plenary nether matters of urgent nationalist importance. It was the 2nd clip helium had asked the Senate to analyse the contented aft a akin petition was rejected past week.

However, Senate President Godswill Akpabio ruled against the motion, saying the substance was already earlier the tribunal and that President Bola Tinubu had directed the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to analyse it.

“In my view, the contented has been overtaken by events arsenic the culprit has been charged to court. It is present sub judice to effort to spell into it again. Mr President has already directed an investigation. If we spell into it now, we volition astir apt beryllium jumping the gun,” Akpabio said.

Despite the ruling, Kawu argued that the National Assembly inactive has the law work to transportation retired its oversight role, careless of immoderate enactment taken by the executive.

The Senate’s determination came aft a Federal High Court ordered the apprehension of Adeyemi for failing to look for his arr...