Former chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Babachir Lawal, has said it is the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the Federation to flag the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC).
CityNews reports that Lawal, a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), made this known while responding to the ongoing investigations into the purported ‘fake agency’ linked to the Presidency.
The controversy intensified on Monday, as the Nigeria Police Force reportedly detained the father of the PFIPC ‘fake DG’, Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi.
In an interview on ARISE Television, Babachir Lawal said unless there is a dereliction of duty by the SGF’s office, the responsibility to flag this fake agency would have come from the SGF.
He said, “In my own time, all the 23 agencies that report directly to the SGF when it’s time to defend their budget, I attended with the MDA that’s going to defend the budget.
“If that MDA is part of the presidency, that is, it reports to the president through the SGF, the SGF should be able to know, because before it gets to the National Assembly, that budget goes to the SGF in that regard.
“I can tell you, unless there’s a dereliction of duty by the SGF’s office, the responsibility to flag this fake agency would have come from the SGF.
“But if sometimes, maybe they feel so much sidelined that they don’t care, they just look the other way. But the responsibility to flag that fake agency comes from the SGF’s office.
“If that happens to me, I’ll go to the president. If you sideline me, I’ll go to the president and protest immediately.”
