The former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank has called for a thorough forensic probe of how the principal intermediary, Dolapo Babatunde Tanimola died mysteriously, following the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) bribery scandal.
Frank noted that for accountability’s sake, the parents, family members, relatives and the public deserve to know what led to Tanimola’s death at a time when his presence would have helped to uncover the truths in the current scandal rocking President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government.
He recalled that the presidency had in a statement by Bayo Onanuga dismissed allegations against the chief of staff to the president, Femi Gbajabiamila, over the scandalous activities of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) and its director general, Adeniyi Adeyemi.
“In the said statement, the presidency claimed that the police confirmed that Mr Tanimola died in a hotel in Abuja five days before Prince Adeyemi was arrested.”
Responding to the claim through a statement he release on Friday in Abuja, Frank said the circumstances leading to Tanimola’s death must be uncovered and unraveled because he was identified as an intermediary and go-between for Prince Adeyemi in the bribery and appointment scandal involving the Chief of Staff to the President, Gbajabiamila.
Frank called on the international community, including the United States of America European Union and other technological developed nations to help Nigeria unravel the true circumstances behind the current monumental corruption rocking Nigeria.
According to him, it’s impossible for an ordinary citizen to boldly operate and enjoy government patronages, including having an annual allocation, secured office at the Federal Secretariat, representing the nation at foreign events, hosted National Assembly leadership, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) boss, foreign ambassadors, among others without having the backing of the presidency.
The political activist believed such an agency couldn’t have existed, opened an account with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), got allocation, recruited staff and operated from the government building without the knowledge of the presidency.
He said: “By now, we expected the Office of the Chief of Staff, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), the Central Bank, the Budget Office, the National Assembly, and the relevant security agencies to be answering uncomfortable questions.
“Despite widespread claims that the agency Prince Adeyemi ran didn’t legally exist, there is information in public domain that the purported DG of PFIPC enjoyed six police officers as escorts, official vehicles, and even an official residence.
“There were also media reports that the Tinubu-led administration granted a waiver to PFIPC under Adeyemi to recruit 300 members of staff in August 2025.”
“The media reports revealed that Mimi Abu, director, organisation design and development, in the office of the head of the civil service of the federation, conveyed the government’s approval for recruitment in a letter dated August 7, 2025.”
While describing the scandal as” monumental corruption of the century”, Timi Frank urged all Nigerians, home and abroad, the civil society organisations, leaders of thought, and all lover of Nigeria not to keep quiet at this moment, adding that the development is enough to sack Tinubu led administration from further damaging and running the country like a personal estate while Nigerians are going through unprecedented level of poverty and hardship.
Nigerians must rise up and condemn this open and brazen impunity perpetuated by the very custodians of the collective heritage and trust of the Nigerian people.
Frank, who is the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) Ambassador to East Africa and the Middle East, said all that has happened under the current administration showed “incompetence and that President Tinubu is not in charge of his government, hence Nigerians shouldn’t allow him beyond the 2027.”
Frank noted that if the National Assembly was to be functioning and performing its oversight function appropriately such an acclaimed agency wouldn’t have seen the light of the day.
