Gbajabiamila Denies It, Budget Confirms It: Who Is Lying About Tinubu’s ₦24bn Agency?
The Gbajabiamila ₦600m question.
It’s either our budget is fake, or someone is lying to Nigeria.
Prince Adeyemi says he paid ₦400m cash, owed ₦200m more, just to head a federal agency.
He says trouble started when he refused to surrender 48% of a ₦24bn take-off grant.
That’s ₦11.52bn in kickback.
Chief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila says the agency doesn’t exist.
Period.
Both cannot be true.
And that’s the real scandal.
If Gbajabiamila is right and the agency is fake, explain this:
First, who smuggled it into the Appropriation Act?
Budgets pass through Budget Office, NASS, and President Tinubu’s assent.
Ghosts don’t write line items.
Section 80(4) Constitution says money only leaves the treasury if the law says so.
Secondly, who told the Head of Service to approve 300 staff?
IPPIS doesn’t pay salaries to spirits. Someone loaded names, grades, and BVNs.
Thirdly, who opened CBN accounts? Section 2 CBN Act restricts CBN to banking government.
No law, no account.
If accounts exist, CBN staff broke the law.
Fourthly, why isn’t Adeyemi in DSS custody?
Section 59 Criminal Code criminalizes false alarm.
Falsely accusing the CoS of ₦600m bribery is a jailable offence.
Silence protects someone.
If Adeyemi is right and the agency exists, Gbajabiamila has bigger problems:
To start with, Section 80 Constitution is dead.
You cannot spend ₦24bn through an agency without an enabling Act.
AG Lagos v AG Federation (2003) already killed that idea.
Again, sale of office is a crime.
Section 98 Criminal Code and Section 10 ICPC Act jail public officers who demand gratification.
₦600m for appointment is state capture.
In addition, 48% kickback is criminal breach of trust.
Section 311 Penal Code.
That’s ₦11.52bn of public money already marked for theft.
What Gbajabiamila and the Presidency must produce in 48 hours:
1.The Gazette.
What law created this agency?
No law means it’s illegal.
2.The budget page.
CTC of the Appropriation Act showing the name, code, and ₦1bn and allocation.
3.CBN mandate cards.
Who are the signatories to the agency accounts?
4.HoS approval letter for 300 staff and IPPIS payroll.
5.Adeyemi’s appointment letter.
Or arrest him for forgery.
Nigeria’s judiciary is weak because the executive plays with budgets like monopoly money.
When a Chief of Staff can deny an agency that has budget, staff, and bank accounts, then Section 80 of the Constitution is just suggestion.
We don’t need press statements.
We need documents or handcuffs.
If Adeyemi lied, jail him.
If he told the truth, jail whoever sold that office and demanded 48%.
Nigeria cannot survive ghost agencies and ghost denials.
One of them belongs in Kuje.
Larry Edemanya.
June 28, 2026
