The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has called for the publication of the interim report of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) into the controversial Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC).

ADC, in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, also demanded that every public official whose action or negligence enabled the fake agency to acquire official legitimacy should be named and held accountable where wrongdoing is established.

The party, however, said the ICPC interim report is not only predictable, but “appears more concerned with exonerating government officials rather than providing clear answers to the serious questions that the scandal has raised.”

According to the statement, the ICPC report appeared to have given the impression that what happened was mere failure in government processes or procedures.

“This position is difficult to sustain in the light of publicly available evidence, which establishes that this is not an error of omission or a mere glitch in the system,” the party said.

ADC stated that what happened was a grand scam that could have been possible only with the active connivance of government officials and institutions at the highest level.

The party described PFIPC as a national disgrace, adding that no serious government should be satisfied with identifying one culprit for prosecution.

According to the ADC, the ICPC’s interim report was predictable and accused the Federal Government of prioritising damage control over a thorough investigation.

The party recalled that it had insisted on a full investigation by an independent panel, adding that the ICPC report fell short of expectation by suggesting that there could be accomplices within government, but mentioned none.

“If all that the commission had to present was a preliminary report, why not simply present it as a confidential brief to the president instead of making a public drama of it in a manner that potentially prejudiced the overall investigation and cast Adeyemi as the principal culprit?” ADC asked.

The party said Nigerians expected the ICPC to tell them who proposed N1.3 billion allocation in the 2026 federal budget, “who processed it, who verified the beneficiary agency and how a body that the presidency now says never existed survived the scrutiny required to appear in an Appropriation Act.

“Budgetary provisions do not materialise by accident. They leave records, submissions, approvals and an audit trail. The National Assembly has itself commenced an investigation into how PFIPC found its way into the federal budget,”

ADC argued that to prosecute “Mr Adeyemi without answering these questions would be to punish the man who entered through the window while refusing to ask who left the doors open.”

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