The Senate on Wednesday refused to begin a full investigation into the budget allocation, activities, and growing controversy surrounding the purported Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC).
Senator Suleiman Kawu (APC, Kano South) raised the matter during plenary through a point of order.
Relying on Order 9 and Rule 9(c) of the Senate Standing Orders (2026), Kawu presented a motion titled, “Urgent Need to Investigate the Budgetary Allocation, Operations, and Controversy surrounding the purported Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) to safeguard the Integrity of the Senate and the Federal Government.”
He said the controversy surrounding the council poses a direct threat to the integrity of the Senate, the credibility of the National Assembly, and the legislature’s constitutional oversight and appropriation powers.
According to him, “The Senate notes with concern that, in recent weeks, the public space has been inundated with allegations, controversies, accusations and counter-accusations concerning an entity known as the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC).
Kawu urged the Senate to strongly condemn the administrative failures, internal collaboration, or fraudulent schemes that allowed a purportedly nonexistent or unauthorised entity under Budget Code: 0111062001 to appear in the 2026 Appropriation Act.
He also asked the Senate to direct the Committees on Ethics, Code of Conduct & Public Petitions, and Appropriations to carry out a full investigation into the inclusion of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) in the 2026 Appropriation Act. The probe, he said, should determine how the sum of N1,302,978,784 was proposed, examined, justified, and approved during the budget process, identify the ministries, departments, agencies, public officials, or other persons responsible for its inclusion, and establish whether any funds have been released, committed, or spent under the allocation, including whether any bank account has been opened or operated for the budget line.
After Kawu presented the motion, Deputy Senate President Senator Barau Jibrin (APC, Kano North), who presided over the session, ruled that the matter should not be debated because the Executive was already handling it.
Jibrin said President Bola Tinubu had directed the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to investigate the issue and urged the Senate to wait for the outcome of the Executive’s action.
