PFIPC scandal: President’s Chief of Staff has no budgetary authority – Budget analyst

Amid ongoing statement implicit the alleged N400 cardinal bribery ungraded surrounding a “fake Federal Government agency”, the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC, a fund analyst, Joseph Oriowo, has stated that the Office of the Chief of Staff to the President has nary budgetary authority.

Oriowo spoke successful absorption to allegations that President Bola Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, collected N400 cardinal arsenic bribe from 1 Adeniyi Adeyemi for assignment arsenic Director General of PFIPC. It is besides being alleged that PFIPC was captured successful the nationalist budget, with reports indicating that implicit N1 cardinal was allocated to the bureau successful the 2026 budget.

It volition beryllium recalled that the Presidency had described PFIPC, which has an bureau astatine the Federal Secretariat, Abuja, arsenic a fake bureau that does not exist.

Speaking connected the controversy, Oriowo pointed retired what helium described arsenic cardinal ignorance of however the Nigerian budgetary process works.

He said, “The Chief of Staff has nary fund authority. Under Nigeria’s Constitution and the Fiscal Responsibility Act, the powerfulness to propose, allocate and see agencies successful the yearly fund rests solely with the Executive arsenic a whole, done the Federal Ministry of Finance, the Budget Office of the Federation, and ultimately, the President, who transmits the Appropriation Bill to the National Assembly.

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