The Senate says it has not received any petition to intervene in the controversial Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) allegedly headed by Adeyemi Mathew.

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Publicity, Yemi Adaramodu, made this known in an interview with journalists on Tuesday in Abuja.

In recent weeks, questions had arisen over the existence of an agency known as the PFIPC, with Mr Adeyemi claiming to be its director-general.

However, chief of staff to the president, Femi Gbajabiamila, had denied knowledge of the agency and the so-called director-general.

Responding to the position of the senate on the raging controversy, Mr Adaramodu said the upper chamber had yet to receive any petition from any of the parties or concerned Nigerians to elicit its intervention, adding that the lawmakers would not interfere on the matter at the moment.

He admitted, as reported in the media, that the alleged fake agency had budget line in the 2026 Appropriation Act, saying that the controversy should be sorted out by the executive where it emanated from.

Mr Adaramodu, however, said given the fact that the controversy had become a matter of litigation, the senate, in line with its rules, would not interfere in it.

He said, “The allegations and counter-allegations over fake agency and fake director-general are all within the executive and should be sorted out by it.

“Specifically, it is between the office of the Chief of Staff and the alleged fake DG.

“The budget line being refered to was not created or inserted by the National Assembly and it is not the duty of the senate or the House of Representatives to carry out security checks on those supposedly appointed to head the various MDAs.

“If the alleged fake DG were to be one of the presidential appointees screened and confirmed by the senate, the controversy might have been perceived to be somewhat linked to us.

“However, if a petition is sent to the senate by any of the feuding parties or any concerned Nigerian on the existence or non-existence of the agency or the DG, it will be legislatively looked into.”

(NAN)