… Urges US, EU, other international community to uncover truth in the appointment, bribery scandal
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 in the appointment and bribery scandal Dolapo Babatunde Tanimola died mysteriously.
Frank said for accountability sake, the parents, family members, relatives and the nation at large, 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.
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, Comrade 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, Femi 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 is 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, EFCC boss, foreign ambassadors, among others without having the backing of the presidency.
The political activist believe such agency could not have existed, opened an account with the 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 did not legally exist, there are informations in public domain that the purported Director General of Presidential Foreign Intervention and Promotion Council enjoyed six police officers as escorts, official vehicles, and even an official residence.
“There were also media reports this Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration granted a waiver to PFIPC under Prince 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 discribing the scandal as” monumental corruption of the century”, Timi Frank urged all Nigerians, home and abroad, the civil society organizations, 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 amd 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 should not allow him beyond the 2027.”
He added that if the National Assembly was to be functioning and performing it oversight function appropriately such acclaim agency would not have seen the light of the day.
Signed:
Comrade Timi Frank
Former APC Deputy National Publicity Secretary.
