House Speaker Says He Was ‘Victim’ Of Alleged Fake PFIPC Boss

Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has said he was “a victim” of the man now described as the fake Director General of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), Adeniyi Adeyemi.

Speaking during plenary on Wednesday, Kalu told lawmakers that his own image has been widely circulated in the media alongside Adeyemi’s, after an encounter he now traces back to a suspicious letter.

He said, “I was a victim, and I’m sure if you watch the news, you would see my picture all over the screen side by side with the purported DG of this organization.”

Kalu explained that his office first heard of the PFIPC in May 2025, when a formal correspondence arrived bearing the trappings of officialdom.

He said the document carried a presidency letterhead and also featured the label “Office of the Director General, PFIPC,” which gave it an initial air of legitimacy.

According to him, the letter listed an address at the Federal Secretariat Complex, Phase Three, second floor, in Abuja’s Central Business District.

He said the mix of seemingly official details and oddities made the entire presentation “a bit confusing” and less than fully convincing.

“Some Documents Looked Confusing” – Dep. Speaker

Kalu told the chamber that some elements on the letterhead looked authentic, while others did not align with his expectations for a genuine federal agency.

He said, “In May 2025, my office got a letter, and that letter had the Presidency as letterhead, also bearing Office of the Director General, PFIPC.”

“When I saw this, I looked down the letterhead, I saw Federal Secretariat Complex, phase three, second floor Central Business District. It was a bit confusing for me. Some of the information looked credible, some did not.”

Because of these doubts, Kalu said he directed his staff to physically verify the existence of the PFIPC at the address stated on the letter.

He said his team returned to report that the organisation was indeed operating from that location, a finding that persuaded him the outfit might be genuine.

“I now sent my team to go and verify the existence of this organization in the said address. My team came back confirming that this organization was in the said location. I now gave approval for them to come to have the interaction with me.”

That sequence of events, he suggested, explains how he ended up in public images alongside a man the presidency now says led a fictitious body, and why he now publicly describes himself as one of those misled by the alleged scheme.