Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, has threatened a N10bn defamation suit against Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi over allegations linking him to murder, bribery and other criminal conduct.
The letter, sighted by The PUNCH, is dated July 6, 2026, and was signed by Kemi Pinheiro, SAN, for Pinheiro LP, lawyers of the Chief of Staff.
The letter followed a June 25 press conference at which Adeyemi, who is facing criminal charges over his alleged role in operating the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, which the Presidency describes as a fictitious agency, accused the Chief of Staff of demanding a share of the council’s alleged take-off grant, receiving money through proxies, abusing his office and participating in a criminal cover-up.
Adeyemi also described Gbajabiamila as “a murderer” and “an assassin” during the briefing.
It demanded that Adeyemi take down all materials, including transcripts, videos and recordings, from all platforms, publish a full retraction and apology in at least five national newspapers and across all social media platforms through which the press conference was disseminated, and provide a written undertaking to refrain from further publications about Gbajabiamila.
The letter was directed at Adeyemi, who has been listed at the Federal High Court, Abuja, in Charge No: FHC/ABJ/CR/652/2026, FRN v. Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew & Ors, on allegations of forgery, including forging an appointment letter bearing Gbajabiamila’s purported signature and counterfeiting Presidential Letter-Headed Papers to fraudulently pass himself off as a government official.
The letter listed nine allegations from the press conference in which Adeyemi, who had claimed to be the Director-General of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, a body the Presidency has described as fictitious, accused Gbajabiamila of demanding 48 per cent of the council’s alleged N27.4bn take-off grant, equivalent to roughly N12.5bn, and of receiving N400m through proxies in connection with appointments linked to the entity.
