A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Kenneth Okonkwo, has tackled the National Assembly over its failure to interrogate President Bola Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila and the purported Director General of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC, Adeniyi Adeyemi.
Okonkwo said concluding investigation into the PFIPC scandal without interrogating Gbajabiamila and Adeyemi is a rape of justice.
Posting on X, Okonkwo wrote: “The purported conclusion of investigation of the criminality of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) without interrogating Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, the DG of the agency, or Femi Gbajabiamila, the Chief of Staff of the President, is a rape of justice and a caricature of the independence of the legislature.
“Natural justice demands that you cannot condemn a man unheard. Any findings of the National Assembly that condemns the Prince or Femi without hearing from them is a nullity and will be laughable.”
The veteran Nollywood actor said the claim by the Inspector General of Police, Tunji Disu that Adeyemi can’t be produced during the investigative hearing due to a court order was absurdity.
He insisted that if Adeyemi is detained due to a court order what happened to Gbajabiamila that he can’t appear during the hearing to defend himself.
“The excuse that the IGP cannot produce Adeyemi because there is a court order remanding him in custody is another absurdity because the legislature is a separate arm of government that cannot be legitimately stopped from performing its constitutional duties by the order of another branch.
“If Adeyemi is in detention, is Femi also in detention? Why did the National Assembly not question Femi, who is not in detention? This National Assembly has turned Nigeria into a joke. Nigerians should end this insanity in 2027 through their votes and by ensuring that their votes count,” he added.
PFIPC scandal: NASS not interrogating Gbajabiamila, Adeyemi is rape of justice – Kenneth Okonkwo