PFIPC: Adeyemi Complaint Was That Presidency Came After Him Over 48% Of N27.5bn Grant-Ex-SGF Lawal

Babachir Lawal, the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, has exposed deep institutional divisions within the presidency involving Chief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila and the criminal trial of Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi over a fake federal agency racket.

According to a video posted on the official YouTube channel of Arise News on Monday, July 6, 2026, while analyzing the extraordinary administrative failure within the federal machinery, he stated, “his complaint was that the presidency was after him because somebody demanded 48% of the take-off grant of 27.5 billion Naira, and so someone was not happy since he refused to part with that money.”

The veteran politician explained that the massive financial controversy surrounding this multi-billion Naira scam only came to light because internal collaborators reportedly fell out during the sharing process of the unappropriated national funds assigned to the agency.

Lawal insisted that the current breakdown of bureaucratic order demonstrates clear institutional compromise rather than a basic administrative error, questioning how a completely fictitious body could seamlessly bypass critical checks to secure official government banking access codes.

He raised serious concerns about the operational relationship between the office of the Chief of Staff and the executive engine room, wondering why standard civil service protocols were ignored until the entire fraudulent scheme became entirely public knowledge.

The former government scribe emphasized that the shocking allegations of individuals buying top federal appointments for hundreds of millions on the streets must be thoroughly investigated alongside the ongoing criminal prosecution currently sitting before the federal courts.

In his concluding remarks, Lawal asserted that the current administration must urgently restore public confidence by establishing an independent judicial panel to unmask all highly placed internal collaborators who actively facilitated this multi-billion Naira state financial scandal…....