The House of Representatives has launched an investigation into the inclusion of more than ₦1.3 billion in the 2026 budget for the disputed Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), warning that the development poses a serious threat to the integrity of Nigeria’s appropriation process and public financial management system.
The resolution followed the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance sponsored by Yusuf Gagdi, an All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmaker from Plateau State, during plenary.
Gagdi warned that the controversy surrounding the PFIPC had exposed serious weaknesses in the country’s budget preparation and verification processes, raising fears that other fictitious organisations might have found their way into previous federal budgets without detection.
The House subsequently resolved to investigate how the council secured budgetary provisions despite allegedly having no legal or executive instrument establishing it.
Leading the debate, Gagdi said the organisation reportedly operated from the Federal Secretariat Complex in Abuja, interacted with several government institutions and presented itself as a legitimate government body before the Presidency publicly declared that it did not exist.
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