This is a response to a dare by a friend, who suggested, “You have friends dwelling in the ‘Rock’, (meaning Aso Rock). Query them (on the vexing issue of Mathew Adeniyi Adeyemi and his relationship with senior government officials).”The scoop is that Adeyemi allegedly formed two agencies and put them within the architecture of the government of President Bola Tinubu, the “City Boy”, who should ordinarily not fall prey to anyone who may look like a con artist.He created the “Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotional Council,’ whereas there is a Ministry of Industries, Trade and Investment; Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and Nigeria in Diaspora Commission that handle foreign, diaspora and international trade matters.Also, he reportedly established a Presidential Economic Advisory Council, as President Tinubu already chairs a Presidential Economic Coordination Council, with the likes of Tony Elumelu of United Bank for Africa as members.The “inventions” probably occurred because state actors stubbornly refused to implement the Oransaye Report that had suggested, aeons ago, that duplications of government ministries, departments and agencies should be discouraged.Adeyemi got office space from the Secretary to the Government of the Federation for his illegitimate agency in the Federal Ministry of Health Building, while Abike Dabiri-Erewa went through hell to get an office for her legit NIDCOM.NIDCOM was forcefully ejected by Isa Pantami, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, from an office given to it by the Nigeria Communications Commission, with the excuse that the office was about to be officially inaugurated by President Buhari.How did Adeyemi, who is allegedly running a fake agency, get a swank office on the 2nd Floor of Phase II of the Federal Secretariat Complex, Abuja, if there are no inside collaborators with institutional knowledge of the road to getting an office?And if, indeed, Adeyemi got his council an accounting code from the Federal Government’s Chart of Accounts and received allocations from the Federal Government budget, he, or someone he knows, must know the systemic loophole in the government’s financial architecture.The National Commission for Almajiri and Out-of-School-Children’s Education accused the National Assembly of inserting off-mandate projects, like road rehabilitation in Abeokuta and procurement of medical equipment in Iyin Ekiti, into its 2026 budget.Also, allocations for the construction and equipping of medical intensive care units in Ijero Ekiti, Efon Alaye and Aramoko in Ekiti State somehow showed up in the 2024 budget of University College Hospital in Oyo State.The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, which insists that Adeyemi’s council never received a kobo of budgetary allocation from the 2026 Budget because it couldn’t open an account with the CBN, due to inadequate documentation, forgot that private banks eagerly open bank accounts for ministries, departments and agencies.All that a government agency needs to open an account with the Central Bank of Nigeria is an introductory letter on a “government” letterhead paper, and the CBN will accept it as legit! Unlike private companies, government agencies are not required to provide the Corporate Affairs Commission or taxation documents to open bank accounts.Indeed, arguments that the council never received a kobo from the CBN fall through when you look at Adeyemi’s stylish dresses, his swank office and the fact that his 300 statutorily approved staff do not seem to have complained about unpaid salaries, personal emoluments and failure to meet operational costs.Adeyemi’s phantom council is said to have received a whopping N1,302,978,784, made up of N802,978,283 for personnel costs (like salaries), N200,000,0001 for overhead costs (like electricity bills), and N300,000,000 for capital projects (like purchase of vehicles).For Adeyemi’s council to draw funds from the annual budget of the Federal Government, all he needs to do is write a Request for Funds to an authority that collates all requests for funds from agencies within the relevant “supervising ministry.”Related NewsAshe declares readiness for Commonwealth GamesAmusan secures 2026 Diamond League final spotFirm sponsors football competition to promote healthy livingThe ministry’s consolidated request for funds is then forwarded to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, whose minister and permanent secretary need not even know those who contributed to or compiled the figures.When appropriated funds are going to be disbursed during the financial year, it will be via an instrument called Authority to Incur Expenditure that will be issued by a schedule officer of the Federal Ministry of Finance, who also does not necessarily need to personally know the individual officers who will receive the funds.The issuance of AIEs cascades down to Adeyemi’s Council, first from the Ministry of Finance, then to, say, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Presidency. There are so many gaps that can be exploited in an apparently elongated maze.There may never be physical contact between the officers who issue AIEs for the transfer of funds from one account to another within the CBN, whose officers, too, may not know all those who issued the AIEs to release funds.Adeyemi probably provided a deus ex machina, or a way of escape, for presidential Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, his alleged enabler, when he told activist Very Dark Man in a viral video that they never met, but had telephone conversations arranged by an intermediary who later died in a fire incident!“Unofficial” government spokespersons who claim that a Director in the Office of the SGF waived the government embargo on employment to give employment letters to Adeyemi’s staff could explain how the budget of Adeyemi’s council was prepared if indeed he was in detention, as he told VDM.Adeyemi’s claim to have paid Gbajabiamila N400m (through a proxy) because of “passion for the country… to bring foreign investors to Nigeria… When you… (are) desperate to serve, you can do anything,” elicited knowing chuckles.Another friend, who alludes to the trust deficit between Nigerians and the government, says, “It’s the latest wonder we are all chewing. I think the most appropriate thing (to do) is just to probe all those mentioned, for Nigerians to have trust.”If this counsel is adopted and the verdict of blindfolded Lady Justice is allowed to fall wherever it may, because there will be no sacred cows, justice can be served; while the innocent will be absolved, the guilty will be made to pay the punitive price. It is a good thing that the government has taken the matter to a court of law that will sit on July 27, 2026.The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com The scoop is that Adeyemi allegedly formed two agencies and put them within the architecture of the government of President Bola Tinubu, the “City Boy”, who should ordinarily not fall prey to anyone who may look like a con artist.He created the “Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotional Council,’ whereas there is a Ministry of Industries, Trade and Investment; Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and Nigeria in Diaspora Commission that handle foreign, diaspora and international trade matters.Also, he reportedly established a Presidential Economic Advisory Council, as President Tinubu already chairs a Presidential Economic Coordination Council, with the likes of Tony Elumelu of United Bank for Africa as members.The “inventions” probably occurred because state actors stubbornly refused to implement the Oransaye Report that had suggested, aeons ago, that duplications of government ministries, departments and agencies should be discouraged.Adeyemi got office space from the Secretary to the Government of the Federation for his illegitimate agency in the Federal Ministry of Health Building, while Abike Dabiri-Erewa went through hell to get an office for her legit NIDCOM.NIDCOM was forcefully ejected by Isa Pantami, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, from an office given to it by the Nigeria Communications Commission, with the excuse that the office was about to be officially inaugurated by President Buhari.How did Adeyemi, who is allegedly running a fake agency, get a swank office on the 2nd Floor of Phase II of the Federal Secretariat Complex, Abuja, if there are no inside collaborators with institutional knowledge of the road to getting an office?And if, indeed, Adeyemi got his council an accounting code from the Federal Government’s Chart of Accounts and received allocations from the Federal Government budget, he, or someone he knows, must know the systemic loophole in the government’s financial architecture.The National Commission for Almajiri and Out-of-School-Children’s Education accused the National Assembly of inserting off-mandate projects, like road rehabilitation in Abeokuta and procurement of medical equipment in Iyin Ekiti, into its 2026 budget.Also, allocations for the construction and equipping of medical intensive care units in Ijero Ekiti, Efon Alaye and Aramoko in Ekiti State somehow showed up in the 2024 budget of University College Hospital in Oyo State.The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, which insists that Adeyemi’s council never received a kobo of budgetary allocation from the 2026 Budget because it couldn’t open an account with the CBN, due to inadequate documentation, forgot that private banks eagerly open bank accounts for ministries, departments and agencies.All that a government agency needs to open an account with the Central Bank of Nigeria is an introductory letter on a “government” letterhead paper, and the CBN will accept it as legit! Unlike private companies, government agencies are not required to provide the Corporate Affairs Commission or taxation documents to open bank accounts.Indeed, arguments that the council never received a kobo from the CBN fall through when you look at Adeyemi’s stylish dresses, his swank office and the fact that his 300 statutorily approved staff do not seem to have complained about unpaid salaries, personal emoluments and failure to meet operational costs.Adeyemi’s phantom council is said to have received a whopping N1,302,978,784, made up of N802,978,283 for personnel costs (like salaries), N200,000,0001 for overhead costs (like electricity bills), and N300,000,000 for capital projects (like purchase of vehicles).For Adeyemi’s council to draw funds from the annual budget of the Federal Government, all he needs to do is write a Request for Funds to an authority that collates all requests for funds from agencies within the relevant “supervising ministry.”Related NewsAshe declares readiness for Commonwealth GamesAmusan secures 2026 Diamond League final spotFirm sponsors football competition to promote healthy livingThe ministry’s consolidated request for funds is then forwarded to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, whose minister and permanent secretary need not even know those who contributed to or compiled the figures.When appropriated funds are going to be disbursed during the financial year, it will be via an instrument called Authority to Incur Expenditure that will be issued by a schedule officer of the Federal Ministry of Finance, who also does not necessarily need to personally know the individual officers who will receive the funds.The issuance of AIEs cascades down to Adeyemi’s Council, first from the Ministry of Finance, then to, say, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Presidency. There are so many gaps that can be exploited in an apparently elongated maze.There may never be physical contact between the officers who issue AIEs for the transfer of funds from one account to another within the CBN, whose officers, too, may not know all those who issued the AIEs to release funds.Adeyemi probably provided a deus ex machina, or a way of escape, for presidential Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, his alleged enabler, when he told activist Very Dark Man in a viral video that they never met, but had telephone conversations arranged by an intermediary who later died in a fire incident!“Unofficial” government spokespersons who claim that a Director in the Office of the SGF waived the government embargo on employment to give employment letters to Adeyemi’s staff could explain how the budget of Adeyemi’s council was prepared if indeed he was in detention, as he told VDM.Adeyemi’s claim to have paid Gbajabiamila N400m (through a proxy) because of “passion for the country… to bring foreign investors to Nigeria… When you… (are) desperate to serve, you can do anything,” elicited knowing chuckles.Another friend, who alludes to the trust deficit between Nigerians and the government, says, “It’s the latest wonder we are all chewing. I think the most appropriate thing (to do) is just to probe all those mentioned, for Nigerians to have trust.”If this counsel is adopted and the verdict of blindfolded Lady Justice is allowed to fall wherever it may, because there will be no sacred cows, justice can be served; while the innocent will be absolved, the guilty will be made to pay the punitive price. It is a good thing that the government has taken the matter to a court of law that will sit on July 27, 2026.The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com He created the “Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotional Council,’ whereas there is a Ministry of Industries, Trade and Investment; Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and Nigeria in Diaspora Commission that handle foreign, diaspora and international trade matters.Also, he reportedly established a Presidential Economic Advisory Council, as President Tinubu already chairs a Presidential Economic Coordination Council, with the likes of Tony Elumelu of United Bank for Africa as members.The “inventions” probably occurred because state actors stubbornly refused to implement the Oransaye Report that had suggested, aeons ago, that duplications of government ministries, departments and agencies should be discouraged.Adeyemi got office space from the Secretary to the Government of the Federation for his illegitimate agency in the Federal Ministry of Health Building, while Abike Dabiri-Erewa went through hell to get an office for her legit NIDCOM.NIDCOM was forcefully ejected by Isa Pantami, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, from an office given to it by the Nigeria Communications Commission, with the excuse that the office was about to be officially inaugurated by President Buhari.How did Adeyemi, who is allegedly running a fake agency, get a swank office on the 2nd Floor of Phase II of the Federal Secretariat Complex, Abuja, if there are no inside collaborators with institutional knowledge of the road to getting an office?And if, indeed, Adeyemi got his council an accounting code from the Federal Government’s Chart of Accounts and received allocations from the Federal Government budget, he, or someone he knows, must know the systemic loophole in the government’s financial architecture.The National Commission for Almajiri and Out-of-School-Children’s Education accused the National Assembly of inserting off-mandate projects, like road rehabilitation in Abeokuta and procurement of medical equipment in Iyin Ekiti, into its 2026 budget.Also, allocations for the construction and equipping of medical intensive care units in Ijero Ekiti, Efon Alaye and Aramoko in Ekiti State somehow showed up in the 2024 budget of University College Hospital in Oyo State.The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, which insists that Adeyemi’s council never received a kobo of budgetary allocation from the 2026 Budget because it couldn’t open an account with the CBN, due to inadequate documentation, forgot that private banks eagerly open bank accounts for ministries, departments and agencies.All that a government agency needs to open an account with the Central Bank of Nigeria is an introductory letter on a “government” letterhead paper, and the CBN will accept it as legit! Unlike private companies, government agencies are not required to provide the Corporate Affairs Commission or taxation documents to open bank accounts.Indeed, arguments that the council never received a kobo from the CBN fall through when you look at Adeyemi’s stylish dresses, his swank office and the fact that his 300 statutorily approved staff do not seem to have complained about unpaid salaries, personal emoluments and failure to meet operational costs.Adeyemi’s phantom council is said to have received a whopping N1,302,978,784, made up of N802,978,283 for personnel costs (like salaries), N200,000,0001 for overhead costs (like electricity bills), and N300,000,000 for capital projects (like purchase of vehicles).For Adeyemi’s council to draw funds from the annual budget of the Federal Government, all he needs to do is write a Request for Funds to an authority that collates all requests for funds from agencies within the relevant “supervising ministry.”Related NewsAshe declares readiness for Commonwealth GamesAmusan secures 2026 Diamond League final spotFirm sponsors football competition to promote healthy livingThe ministry’s consolidated request for funds is then forwarded to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, whose minister and permanent secretary need not even know those who contributed to or compiled the figures.When appropriated funds are going to be disbursed during the financial year, it will be via an instrument called Authority to Incur Expenditure that will be issued by a schedule officer of the Federal Ministry of Finance, who also does not necessarily need to personally know the individual officers who will receive the funds.The issuance of AIEs cascades down to Adeyemi’s Council, first from the Ministry of Finance, then to, say, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Presidency. There are so many gaps that can be exploited in an apparently elongated maze.There may never be physical contact between the officers who issue AIEs for the transfer of funds from one account to another within the CBN, whose officers, too, may not know all those who issued the AIEs to release funds.Adeyemi probably provided a deus ex machina, or a way of escape, for presidential Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, his alleged enabler, when he told activist Very Dark Man in a viral video that they never met, but had telephone conversations arranged by an intermediary who later died in a fire incident!“Unofficial” government spokespersons who claim that a Director in the Office of the SGF waived the government embargo on employment to give employment letters to Adeyemi’s staff could explain how the budget of Adeyemi’s council was prepared if indeed he was in detention, as he told VDM.Adeyemi’s claim to have paid Gbajabiamila N400m (through a proxy) because of “passion for the country… to bring foreign investors to Nigeria… When you… (are) desperate to serve, you can do anything,” elicited knowing chuckles.Another friend, who alludes to the trust deficit between Nigerians and the government, says, “It’s the latest wonder we are all chewing. I think the most appropriate thing (to do) is just to probe all those mentioned, for Nigerians to have trust.”If this counsel is adopted and the verdict of blindfolded Lady Justice is allowed to fall wherever it may, because there will be no sacred cows, justice can be served; while the innocent will be absolved, the guilty will be made to pay the punitive price. It is a good thing that the government has taken the matter to a court of law that will sit on July 27, 2026.The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com Also, he reportedly established a Presidential Economic Advisory Council, as President Tinubu already chairs a Presidential Economic Coordination Council, with the likes of Tony Elumelu of United Bank for Africa as members.The “inventions” probably occurred because state actors stubbornly refused to implement the Oransaye Report that had suggested, aeons ago, that duplications of government ministries, departments and agencies should be discouraged.Adeyemi got office space from the Secretary to the Government of the Federation for his illegitimate agency in the Federal Ministry of Health Building, while Abike Dabiri-Erewa went through hell to get an office for her legit NIDCOM.NIDCOM was forcefully ejected by Isa Pantami, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, from an office given to it by the Nigeria Communications Commission, with the excuse that the office was about to be officially inaugurated by President Buhari.How did Adeyemi, who is allegedly running a fake agency, get a swank office on the 2nd Floor of Phase II of the Federal Secretariat Complex, Abuja, if there are no inside collaborators with institutional knowledge of the road to getting an office?And if, indeed, Adeyemi got his council an accounting code from the Federal Government’s Chart of Accounts and received allocations from the Federal Government budget, he, or someone he knows, must know the systemic loophole in the government’s financial architecture.The National Commission for Almajiri and Out-of-School-Children’s Education accused the National Assembly of inserting off-mandate projects, like road rehabilitation in Abeokuta and procurement of medical equipment in Iyin Ekiti, into its 2026 budget.Also, allocations for the construction and equipping of medical intensive care units in Ijero Ekiti, Efon Alaye and Aramoko in Ekiti State somehow showed up in the 2024 budget of University College Hospital in Oyo State.The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, which insists that Adeyemi’s council never received a kobo of budgetary allocation from the 2026 Budget because it couldn’t open an account with the CBN, due to inadequate documentation, forgot that private banks eagerly open bank accounts for ministries, departments and agencies.All that a government agency needs to open an account with the Central Bank of Nigeria is an introductory letter on a “government” letterhead paper, and the CBN will accept it as legit! Unlike private companies, government agencies are not required to provide the Corporate Affairs Commission or taxation documents to open bank accounts.Indeed, arguments that the council never received a kobo from the CBN fall through when you look at Adeyemi’s stylish dresses, his swank office and the fact that his 300 statutorily approved staff do not seem to have complained about unpaid salaries, personal emoluments and failure to meet operational costs.Adeyemi’s phantom council is said to have received a whopping N1,302,978,784, made up of N802,978,283 for personnel costs (like salaries), N200,000,0001 for overhead costs (like electricity bills), and N300,000,000 for capital projects (like purchase of vehicles).For Adeyemi’s council to draw funds from the annual budget of the Federal Government, all he needs to do is write a Request for Funds to an authority that collates all requests for funds from agencies within the relevant “supervising ministry.”Related NewsAshe declares readiness for Commonwealth GamesAmusan secures 2026 Diamond League final spotFirm sponsors football competition to promote healthy livingThe ministry’s consolidated request for funds is then forwarded to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, whose minister and permanent secretary need not even know those who contributed to or compiled the figures.When appropriated funds are going to be disbursed during the financial year, it will be via an instrument called Authority to Incur Expenditure that will be issued by a schedule officer of the Federal Ministry of Finance, who also does not necessarily need to personally know the individual officers who will receive the funds.The issuance of AIEs cascades down to Adeyemi’s Council, first from the Ministry of Finance, then to, say, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Presidency. There are so many gaps that can be exploited in an apparently elongated maze.There may never be physical contact between the officers who issue AIEs for the transfer of funds from one account to another within the CBN, whose officers, too, may not know all those who issued the AIEs to release funds.Adeyemi probably provided a deus ex machina, or a way of escape, for presidential Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, his alleged enabler, when he told activist Very Dark Man in a viral video that they never met, but had telephone conversations arranged by an intermediary who later died in a fire incident!“Unofficial” government spokespersons who claim that a Director in the Office of the SGF waived the government embargo on employment to give employment letters to Adeyemi’s staff could explain how the budget of Adeyemi’s council was prepared if indeed he was in detention, as he told VDM.Adeyemi’s claim to have paid Gbajabiamila N400m (through a proxy) because of “passion for the country… to bring foreign investors to Nigeria… When you… (are) desperate to serve, you can do anything,” elicited knowing chuckles.Another friend, who alludes to the trust deficit between Nigerians and the government, says, “It’s the latest wonder we are all chewing. I think the most appropriate thing (to do) is just to probe all those mentioned, for Nigerians to have trust.”If this counsel is adopted and the verdict of blindfolded Lady Justice is allowed to fall wherever it may, because there will be no sacred cows, justice can be served; while the innocent will be absolved, the guilty will be made to pay the punitive price. It is a good thing that the government has taken the matter to a court of law that will sit on July 27, 2026.The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com The “inventions” probably occurred because state actors stubbornly refused to implement the Oransaye Report that had suggested, aeons ago, that duplications of government ministries, departments and agencies should be discouraged.Adeyemi got office space from the Secretary to the Government of the Federation for his illegitimate agency in the Federal Ministry of Health Building, while Abike Dabiri-Erewa went through hell to get an office for her legit NIDCOM.NIDCOM was forcefully ejected by Isa Pantami, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, from an office given to it by the Nigeria Communications Commission, with the excuse that the office was about to be officially inaugurated by President Buhari.How did Adeyemi, who is allegedly running a fake agency, get a swank office on the 2nd Floor of Phase II of the Federal Secretariat Complex, Abuja, if there are no inside collaborators with institutional knowledge of the road to getting an office?And if, indeed, Adeyemi got his council an accounting code from the Federal Government’s Chart of Accounts and received allocations from the Federal Government budget, he, or someone he knows, must know the systemic loophole in the government’s financial architecture.The National Commission for Almajiri and Out-of-School-Children’s Education accused the National Assembly of inserting off-mandate projects, like road rehabilitation in Abeokuta and procurement of medical equipment in Iyin Ekiti, into its 2026 budget.Also, allocations for the construction and equipping of medical intensive care units in Ijero Ekiti, Efon Alaye and Aramoko in Ekiti State somehow showed up in the 2024 budget of University College Hospital in Oyo State.The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, which insists that Adeyemi’s council never received a kobo of budgetary allocation from the 2026 Budget because it couldn’t open an account with the CBN, due to inadequate documentation, forgot that private banks eagerly open bank accounts for ministries, departments and agencies.All that a government agency needs to open an account with the Central Bank of Nigeria is an introductory letter on a “government” letterhead paper, and the CBN will accept it as legit! Unlike private companies, government agencies are not required to provide the Corporate Affairs Commission or taxation documents to open bank accounts.Indeed, arguments that the council never received a kobo from the CBN fall through when you look at Adeyemi’s stylish dresses, his swank office and the fact that his 300 statutorily approved staff do not seem to have complained about unpaid salaries, personal emoluments and failure to meet operational costs.Adeyemi’s phantom council is said to have received a whopping N1,302,978,784, made up of N802,978,283 for personnel costs (like salaries), N200,000,0001 for overhead costs (like electricity bills), and N300,000,000 for capital projects (like purchase of vehicles).For Adeyemi’s council to draw funds from the annual budget of the Federal Government, all he needs to do is write a Request for Funds to an authority that collates all requests for funds from agencies within the relevant “supervising ministry.”Related NewsAshe declares readiness for Commonwealth GamesAmusan secures 2026 Diamond League final spotFirm sponsors football competition to promote healthy livingThe ministry’s consolidated request for funds is then forwarded to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, whose minister and permanent secretary need not even know those who contributed to or compiled the figures.When appropriated funds are going to be disbursed during the financial year, it will be via an instrument called Authority to Incur Expenditure that will be issued by a schedule officer of the Federal Ministry of Finance, who also does not necessarily need to personally know the individual officers who will receive the funds.The issuance of AIEs cascades down to Adeyemi’s Council, first from the Ministry of Finance, then to, say, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Presidency. There are so many gaps that can be exploited in an apparently elongated maze.There may never be physical contact between the officers who issue AIEs for the transfer of funds from one account to another within the CBN, whose officers, too, may not know all those who issued the AIEs to release funds.Adeyemi probably provided a deus ex machina, or a way of escape, for presidential Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, his alleged enabler, when he told activist Very Dark Man in a viral video that they never met, but had telephone conversations arranged by an intermediary who later died in a fire incident!“Unofficial” government spokespersons who claim that a Director in the Office of the SGF waived the government embargo on employment to give employment letters to Adeyemi’s staff could explain how the budget of Adeyemi’s council was prepared if indeed he was in detention, as he told VDM.Adeyemi’s claim to have paid Gbajabiamila N400m (through a proxy) because of “passion for the country… to bring foreign investors to Nigeria… When you… (are) desperate to serve, you can do anything,” elicited knowing chuckles.Another friend, who alludes to the trust deficit between Nigerians and the government, says, “It’s the latest wonder we are all chewing. I think the most appropriate thing (to do) is just to probe all those mentioned, for Nigerians to have trust.”If this counsel is adopted and the verdict of blindfolded Lady Justice is allowed to fall wherever it may, because there will be no sacred cows, justice can be served; while the innocent will be absolved, the guilty will be made to pay the punitive price. It is a good thing that the government has taken the matter to a court of law that will sit on July 27, 2026.The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com Adeyemi got office space from the Secretary to the Government of the Federation for his illegitimate agency in the Federal Ministry of Health Building, while Abike Dabiri-Erewa went through hell to get an office for her legit NIDCOM.NIDCOM was forcefully ejected by Isa Pantami, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, from an office given to it by the Nigeria Communications Commission, with the excuse that the office was about to be officially inaugurated by President Buhari.How did Adeyemi, who is allegedly running a fake agency, get a swank office on the 2nd Floor of Phase II of the Federal Secretariat Complex, Abuja, if there are no inside collaborators with institutional knowledge of the road to getting an office?And if, indeed, Adeyemi got his council an accounting code from the Federal Government’s Chart of Accounts and received allocations from the Federal Government budget, he, or someone he knows, must know the systemic loophole in the government’s financial architecture.The National Commission for Almajiri and Out-of-School-Children’s Education accused the National Assembly of inserting off-mandate projects, like road rehabilitation in Abeokuta and procurement of medical equipment in Iyin Ekiti, into its 2026 budget.Also, allocations for the construction and equipping of medical intensive care units in Ijero Ekiti, Efon Alaye and Aramoko in Ekiti State somehow showed up in the 2024 budget of University College Hospital in Oyo State.The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, which insists that Adeyemi’s council never received a kobo of budgetary allocation from the 2026 Budget because it couldn’t open an account with the CBN, due to inadequate documentation, forgot that private banks eagerly open bank accounts for ministries, departments and agencies.All that a government agency needs to open an account with the Central Bank of Nigeria is an introductory letter on a “government” letterhead paper, and the CBN will accept it as legit! Unlike private companies, government agencies are not required to provide the Corporate Affairs Commission or taxation documents to open bank accounts.Indeed, arguments that the council never received a kobo from the CBN fall through when you look at Adeyemi’s stylish dresses, his swank office and the fact that his 300 statutorily approved staff do not seem to have complained about unpaid salaries, personal emoluments and failure to meet operational costs.Adeyemi’s phantom council is said to have received a whopping N1,302,978,784, made up of N802,978,283 for personnel costs (like salaries), N200,000,0001 for overhead costs (like electricity bills), and N300,000,000 for capital projects (like purchase of vehicles).For Adeyemi’s council to draw funds from the annual budget of the Federal Government, all he needs to do is write a Request for Funds to an authority that collates all requests for funds from agencies within the relevant “supervising ministry.”Related NewsAshe declares readiness for Commonwealth GamesAmusan secures 2026 Diamond League final spotFirm sponsors football competition to promote healthy livingThe ministry’s consolidated request for funds is then forwarded to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, whose minister and permanent secretary need not even know those who contributed to or compiled the figures.When appropriated funds are going to be disbursed during the financial year, it will be via an instrument called Authority to Incur Expenditure that will be issued by a schedule officer of the Federal Ministry of Finance, who also does not necessarily need to personally know the individual officers who will receive the funds.The issuance of AIEs cascades down to Adeyemi’s Council, first from the Ministry of Finance, then to, say, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Presidency. There are so many gaps that can be exploited in an apparently elongated maze.There may never be physical contact between the officers who issue AIEs for the transfer of funds from one account to another within the CBN, whose officers, too, may not know all those who issued the AIEs to release funds.Adeyemi probably provided a deus ex machina, or a way of escape, for presidential Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, his alleged enabler, when he told activist Very Dark Man in a viral video that they never met, but had telephone conversations arranged by an intermediary who later died in a fire incident!“Unofficial” government spokespersons who claim that a Director in the Office of the SGF waived the government embargo on employment to give employment letters to Adeyemi’s staff could explain how the budget of Adeyemi’s council was prepared if indeed he was in detention, as he told VDM.Adeyemi’s claim to have paid Gbajabiamila N400m (through a proxy) because of “passion for the country… to bring foreign investors to Nigeria… When you… (are) desperate to serve, you can do anything,” elicited knowing chuckles.Another friend, who alludes to the trust deficit between Nigerians and the government, says, “It’s the latest wonder we are all chewing. I think the most appropriate thing (to do) is just to probe all those mentioned, for Nigerians to have trust.”If this counsel is adopted and the verdict of blindfolded Lady Justice is allowed to fall wherever it may, because there will be no sacred cows, justice can be served; while the innocent will be absolved, the guilty will be made to pay the punitive price. It is a good thing that the government has taken the matter to a court of law that will sit on July 27, 2026.The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com NIDCOM was forcefully ejected by Isa Pantami, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, from an office given to it by the Nigeria Communications Commission, with the excuse that the office was about to be officially inaugurated by President Buhari.How did Adeyemi, who is allegedly running a fake agency, get a swank office on the 2nd Floor of Phase II of the Federal Secretariat Complex, Abuja, if there are no inside collaborators with institutional knowledge of the road to getting an office?And if, indeed, Adeyemi got his council an accounting code from the Federal Government’s Chart of Accounts and received allocations from the Federal Government budget, he, or someone he knows, must know the systemic loophole in the government’s financial architecture.The National Commission for Almajiri and Out-of-School-Children’s Education accused the National Assembly of inserting off-mandate projects, like road rehabilitation in Abeokuta and procurement of medical equipment in Iyin Ekiti, into its 2026 budget.Also, allocations for the construction and equipping of medical intensive care units in Ijero Ekiti, Efon Alaye and Aramoko in Ekiti State somehow showed up in the 2024 budget of University College Hospital in Oyo State.The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, which insists that Adeyemi’s council never received a kobo of budgetary allocation from the 2026 Budget because it couldn’t open an account with the CBN, due to inadequate documentation, forgot that private banks eagerly open bank accounts for ministries, departments and agencies.All that a government agency needs to open an account with the Central Bank of Nigeria is an introductory letter on a “government” letterhead paper, and the CBN will accept it as legit! Unlike private companies, government agencies are not required to provide the Corporate Affairs Commission or taxation documents to open bank accounts.Indeed, arguments that the council never received a kobo from the CBN fall through when you look at Adeyemi’s stylish dresses, his swank office and the fact that his 300 statutorily approved staff do not seem to have complained about unpaid salaries, personal emoluments and failure to meet operational costs.Adeyemi’s phantom council is said to have received a whopping N1,302,978,784, made up of N802,978,283 for personnel costs (like salaries), N200,000,0001 for overhead costs (like electricity bills), and N300,000,000 for capital projects (like purchase of vehicles).For Adeyemi’s council to draw funds from the annual budget of the Federal Government, all he needs to do is write a Request for Funds to an authority that collates all requests for funds from agencies within the relevant “supervising ministry.”Related NewsAshe declares readiness for Commonwealth GamesAmusan secures 2026 Diamond League final spotFirm sponsors football competition to promote healthy livingThe ministry’s consolidated request for funds is then forwarded to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, whose minister and permanent secretary need not even know those who contributed to or compiled the figures.When appropriated funds are going to be disbursed during the financial year, it will be via an instrument called Authority to Incur Expenditure that will be issued by a schedule officer of the Federal Ministry of Finance, who also does not necessarily need to personally know the individual officers who will receive the funds.The issuance of AIEs cascades down to Adeyemi’s Council, first from the Ministry of Finance, then to, say, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Presidency. There are so many gaps that can be exploited in an apparently elongated maze.There may never be physical contact between the officers who issue AIEs for the transfer of funds from one account to another within the CBN, whose officers, too, may not know all those who issued the AIEs to release funds.Adeyemi probably provided a deus ex machina, or a way of escape, for presidential Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, his alleged enabler, when he told activist Very Dark Man in a viral video that they never met, but had telephone conversations arranged by an intermediary who later died in a fire incident!“Unofficial” government spokespersons who claim that a Director in the Office of the SGF waived the government embargo on employment to give employment letters to Adeyemi’s staff could explain how the budget of Adeyemi’s council was prepared if indeed he was in detention, as he told VDM.Adeyemi’s claim to have paid Gbajabiamila N400m (through a proxy) because of “passion for the country… to bring foreign investors to Nigeria… When you… (are) desperate to serve, you can do anything,” elicited knowing chuckles.Another friend, who alludes to the trust deficit between Nigerians and the government, says, “It’s the latest wonder we are all chewing. I think the most appropriate thing (to do) is just to probe all those mentioned, for Nigerians to have trust.”If this counsel is adopted and the verdict of blindfolded Lady Justice is allowed to fall wherever it may, because there will be no sacred cows, justice can be served; while the innocent will be absolved, the guilty will be made to pay the punitive price. It is a good thing that the government has taken the matter to a court of law that will sit on July 27, 2026.The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com How did Adeyemi, who is allegedly running a fake agency, get a swank office on the 2nd Floor of Phase II of the Federal Secretariat Complex, Abuja, if there are no inside collaborators with institutional knowledge of the road to getting an office?And if, indeed, Adeyemi got his council an accounting code from the Federal Government’s Chart of Accounts and received allocations from the Federal Government budget, he, or someone he knows, must know the systemic loophole in the government’s financial architecture.The National Commission for Almajiri and Out-of-School-Children’s Education accused the National Assembly of inserting off-mandate projects, like road rehabilitation in Abeokuta and procurement of medical equipment in Iyin Ekiti, into its 2026 budget.Also, allocations for the construction and equipping of medical intensive care units in Ijero Ekiti, Efon Alaye and Aramoko in Ekiti State somehow showed up in the 2024 budget of University College Hospital in Oyo State.The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, which insists that Adeyemi’s council never received a kobo of budgetary allocation from the 2026 Budget because it couldn’t open an account with the CBN, due to inadequate documentation, forgot that private banks eagerly open bank accounts for ministries, departments and agencies.All that a government agency needs to open an account with the Central Bank of Nigeria is an introductory letter on a “government” letterhead paper, and the CBN will accept it as legit! Unlike private companies, government agencies are not required to provide the Corporate Affairs Commission or taxation documents to open bank accounts.Indeed, arguments that the council never received a kobo from the CBN fall through when you look at Adeyemi’s stylish dresses, his swank office and the fact that his 300 statutorily approved staff do not seem to have complained about unpaid salaries, personal emoluments and failure to meet operational costs.Adeyemi’s phantom council is said to have received a whopping N1,302,978,784, made up of N802,978,283 for personnel costs (like salaries), N200,000,0001 for overhead costs (like electricity bills), and N300,000,000 for capital projects (like purchase of vehicles).For Adeyemi’s council to draw funds from the annual budget of the Federal Government, all he needs to do is write a Request for Funds to an authority that collates all requests for funds from agencies within the relevant “supervising ministry.”Related NewsAshe declares readiness for Commonwealth GamesAmusan secures 2026 Diamond League final spotFirm sponsors football competition to promote healthy livingThe ministry’s consolidated request for funds is then forwarded to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, whose minister and permanent secretary need not even know those who contributed to or compiled the figures.When appropriated funds are going to be disbursed during the financial year, it will be via an instrument called Authority to Incur Expenditure that will be issued by a schedule officer of the Federal Ministry of Finance, who also does not necessarily need to personally know the individual officers who will receive the funds.The issuance of AIEs cascades down to Adeyemi’s Council, first from the Ministry of Finance, then to, say, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Presidency. There are so many gaps that can be exploited in an apparently elongated maze.There may never be physical contact between the officers who issue AIEs for the transfer of funds from one account to another within the CBN, whose officers, too, may not know all those who issued the AIEs to release funds.Adeyemi probably provided a deus ex machina, or a way of escape, for presidential Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, his alleged enabler, when he told activist Very Dark Man in a viral video that they never met, but had telephone conversations arranged by an intermediary who later died in a fire incident!“Unofficial” government spokespersons who claim that a Director in the Office of the SGF waived the government embargo on employment to give employment letters to Adeyemi’s staff could explain how the budget of Adeyemi’s council was prepared if indeed he was in detention, as he told VDM.Adeyemi’s claim to have paid Gbajabiamila N400m (through a proxy) because of “passion for the country… to bring foreign investors to Nigeria… When you… (are) desperate to serve, you can do anything,” elicited knowing chuckles.Another friend, who alludes to the trust deficit between Nigerians and the government, says, “It’s the latest wonder we are all chewing. I think the most appropriate thing (to do) is just to probe all those mentioned, for Nigerians to have trust.”If this counsel is adopted and the verdict of blindfolded Lady Justice is allowed to fall wherever it may, because there will be no sacred cows, justice can be served; while the innocent will be absolved, the guilty will be made to pay the punitive price. It is a good thing that the government has taken the matter to a court of law that will sit on July 27, 2026.The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com And if, indeed, Adeyemi got his council an accounting code from the Federal Government’s Chart of Accounts and received allocations from the Federal Government budget, he, or someone he knows, must know the systemic loophole in the government’s financial architecture.The National Commission for Almajiri and Out-of-School-Children’s Education accused the National Assembly of inserting off-mandate projects, like road rehabilitation in Abeokuta and procurement of medical equipment in Iyin Ekiti, into its 2026 budget.Also, allocations for the construction and equipping of medical intensive care units in Ijero Ekiti, Efon Alaye and Aramoko in Ekiti State somehow showed up in the 2024 budget of University College Hospital in Oyo State.The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, which insists that Adeyemi’s council never received a kobo of budgetary allocation from the 2026 Budget because it couldn’t open an account with the CBN, due to inadequate documentation, forgot that private banks eagerly open bank accounts for ministries, departments and agencies.All that a government agency needs to open an account with the Central Bank of Nigeria is an introductory letter on a “government” letterhead paper, and the CBN will accept it as legit! Unlike private companies, government agencies are not required to provide the Corporate Affairs Commission or taxation documents to open bank accounts.Indeed, arguments that the council never received a kobo from the CBN fall through when you look at Adeyemi’s stylish dresses, his swank office and the fact that his 300 statutorily approved staff do not seem to have complained about unpaid salaries, personal emoluments and failure to meet operational costs.Adeyemi’s phantom council is said to have received a whopping N1,302,978,784, made up of N802,978,283 for personnel costs (like salaries), N200,000,0001 for overhead costs (like electricity bills), and N300,000,000 for capital projects (like purchase of vehicles).For Adeyemi’s council to draw funds from the annual budget of the Federal Government, all he needs to do is write a Request for Funds to an authority that collates all requests for funds from agencies within the relevant “supervising ministry.”Related NewsAshe declares readiness for Commonwealth GamesAmusan secures 2026 Diamond League final spotFirm sponsors football competition to promote healthy livingThe ministry’s consolidated request for funds is then forwarded to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, whose minister and permanent secretary need not even know those who contributed to or compiled the figures.When appropriated funds are going to be disbursed during the financial year, it will be via an instrument called Authority to Incur Expenditure that will be issued by a schedule officer of the Federal Ministry of Finance, who also does not necessarily need to personally know the individual officers who will receive the funds.The issuance of AIEs cascades down to Adeyemi’s Council, first from the Ministry of Finance, then to, say, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Presidency. There are so many gaps that can be exploited in an apparently elongated maze.There may never be physical contact between the officers who issue AIEs for the transfer of funds from one account to another within the CBN, whose officers, too, may not know all those who issued the AIEs to release funds.Adeyemi probably provided a deus ex machina, or a way of escape, for presidential Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, his alleged enabler, when he told activist Very Dark Man in a viral video that they never met, but had telephone conversations arranged by an intermediary who later died in a fire incident!“Unofficial” government spokespersons who claim that a Director in the Office of the SGF waived the government embargo on employment to give employment letters to Adeyemi’s staff could explain how the budget of Adeyemi’s council was prepared if indeed he was in detention, as he told VDM.Adeyemi’s claim to have paid Gbajabiamila N400m (through a proxy) because of “passion for the country… to bring foreign investors to Nigeria… When you… (are) desperate to serve, you can do anything,” elicited knowing chuckles.Another friend, who alludes to the trust deficit between Nigerians and the government, says, “It’s the latest wonder we are all chewing. I think the most appropriate thing (to do) is just to probe all those mentioned, for Nigerians to have trust.”If this counsel is adopted and the verdict of blindfolded Lady Justice is allowed to fall wherever it may, because there will be no sacred cows, justice can be served; while the innocent will be absolved, the guilty will be made to pay the punitive price. It is a good thing that the government has taken the matter to a court of law that will sit on July 27, 2026.The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com The National Commission for Almajiri and Out-of-School-Children’s Education accused the National Assembly of inserting off-mandate projects, like road rehabilitation in Abeokuta and procurement of medical equipment in Iyin Ekiti, into its 2026 budget.Also, allocations for the construction and equipping of medical intensive care units in Ijero Ekiti, Efon Alaye and Aramoko in Ekiti State somehow showed up in the 2024 budget of University College Hospital in Oyo State.The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, which insists that Adeyemi’s council never received a kobo of budgetary allocation from the 2026 Budget because it couldn’t open an account with the CBN, due to inadequate documentation, forgot that private banks eagerly open bank accounts for ministries, departments and agencies.All that a government agency needs to open an account with the Central Bank of Nigeria is an introductory letter on a “government” letterhead paper, and the CBN will accept it as legit! Unlike private companies, government agencies are not required to provide the Corporate Affairs Commission or taxation documents to open bank accounts.Indeed, arguments that the council never received a kobo from the CBN fall through when you look at Adeyemi’s stylish dresses, his swank office and the fact that his 300 statutorily approved staff do not seem to have complained about unpaid salaries, personal emoluments and failure to meet operational costs.Adeyemi’s phantom council is said to have received a whopping N1,302,978,784, made up of N802,978,283 for personnel costs (like salaries), N200,000,0001 for overhead costs (like electricity bills), and N300,000,000 for capital projects (like purchase of vehicles).For Adeyemi’s council to draw funds from the annual budget of the Federal Government, all he needs to do is write a Request for Funds to an authority that collates all requests for funds from agencies within the relevant “supervising ministry.”Related NewsAshe declares readiness for Commonwealth GamesAmusan secures 2026 Diamond League final spotFirm sponsors football competition to promote healthy livingThe ministry’s consolidated request for funds is then forwarded to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, whose minister and permanent secretary need not even know those who contributed to or compiled the figures.When appropriated funds are going to be disbursed during the financial year, it will be via an instrument called Authority to Incur Expenditure that will be issued by a schedule officer of the Federal Ministry of Finance, who also does not necessarily need to personally know the individual officers who will receive the funds.The issuance of AIEs cascades down to Adeyemi’s Council, first from the Ministry of Finance, then to, say, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Presidency. There are so many gaps that can be exploited in an apparently elongated maze.There may never be physical contact between the officers who issue AIEs for the transfer of funds from one account to another within the CBN, whose officers, too, may not know all those who issued the AIEs to release funds.Adeyemi probably provided a deus ex machina, or a way of escape, for presidential Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, his alleged enabler, when he told activist Very Dark Man in a viral video that they never met, but had telephone conversations arranged by an intermediary who later died in a fire incident!“Unofficial” government spokespersons who claim that a Director in the Office of the SGF waived the government embargo on employment to give employment letters to Adeyemi’s staff could explain how the budget of Adeyemi’s council was prepared if indeed he was in detention, as he told VDM.Adeyemi’s claim to have paid Gbajabiamila N400m (through a proxy) because of “passion for the country… to bring foreign investors to Nigeria… When you… (are) desperate to serve, you can do anything,” elicited knowing chuckles.Another friend, who alludes to the trust deficit between Nigerians and the government, says, “It’s the latest wonder we are all chewing. I think the most appropriate thing (to do) is just to probe all those mentioned, for Nigerians to have trust.”If this counsel is adopted and the verdict of blindfolded Lady Justice is allowed to fall wherever it may, because there will be no sacred cows, justice can be served; while the innocent will be absolved, the guilty will be made to pay the punitive price. It is a good thing that the government has taken the matter to a court of law that will sit on July 27, 2026.The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com Also, allocations for the construction and equipping of medical intensive care units in Ijero Ekiti, Efon Alaye and Aramoko in Ekiti State somehow showed up in the 2024 budget of University College Hospital in Oyo State.The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, which insists that Adeyemi’s council never received a kobo of budgetary allocation from the 2026 Budget because it couldn’t open an account with the CBN, due to inadequate documentation, forgot that private banks eagerly open bank accounts for ministries, departments and agencies.All that a government agency needs to open an account with the Central Bank of Nigeria is an introductory letter on a “government” letterhead paper, and the CBN will accept it as legit! Unlike private companies, government agencies are not required to provide the Corporate Affairs Commission or taxation documents to open bank accounts.Indeed, arguments that the council never received a kobo from the CBN fall through when you look at Adeyemi’s stylish dresses, his swank office and the fact that his 300 statutorily approved staff do not seem to have complained about unpaid salaries, personal emoluments and failure to meet operational costs.Adeyemi’s phantom council is said to have received a whopping N1,302,978,784, made up of N802,978,283 for personnel costs (like salaries), N200,000,0001 for overhead costs (like electricity bills), and N300,000,000 for capital projects (like purchase of vehicles).For Adeyemi’s council to draw funds from the annual budget of the Federal Government, all he needs to do is write a Request for Funds to an authority that collates all requests for funds from agencies within the relevant “supervising ministry.”Related NewsAshe declares readiness for Commonwealth GamesAmusan secures 2026 Diamond League final spotFirm sponsors football competition to promote healthy livingThe ministry’s consolidated request for funds is then forwarded to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, whose minister and permanent secretary need not even know those who contributed to or compiled the figures.When appropriated funds are going to be disbursed during the financial year, it will be via an instrument called Authority to Incur Expenditure that will be issued by a schedule officer of the Federal Ministry of Finance, who also does not necessarily need to personally know the individual officers who will receive the funds.The issuance of AIEs cascades down to Adeyemi’s Council, first from the Ministry of Finance, then to, say, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Presidency. There are so many gaps that can be exploited in an apparently elongated maze.There may never be physical contact between the officers who issue AIEs for the transfer of funds from one account to another within the CBN, whose officers, too, may not know all those who issued the AIEs to release funds.Adeyemi probably provided a deus ex machina, or a way of escape, for presidential Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, his alleged enabler, when he told activist Very Dark Man in a viral video that they never met, but had telephone conversations arranged by an intermediary who later died in a fire incident!“Unofficial” government spokespersons who claim that a Director in the Office of the SGF waived the government embargo on employment to give employment letters to Adeyemi’s staff could explain how the budget of Adeyemi’s council was prepared if indeed he was in detention, as he told VDM.Adeyemi’s claim to have paid Gbajabiamila N400m (through a proxy) because of “passion for the country… to bring foreign investors to Nigeria… When you… (are) desperate to serve, you can do anything,” elicited knowing chuckles.Another friend, who alludes to the trust deficit between Nigerians and the government, says, “It’s the latest wonder we are all chewing. I think the most appropriate thing (to do) is just to probe all those mentioned, for Nigerians to have trust.”If this counsel is adopted and the verdict of blindfolded Lady Justice is allowed to fall wherever it may, because there will be no sacred cows, justice can be served; while the innocent will be absolved, the guilty will be made to pay the punitive price. It is a good thing that the government has taken the matter to a court of law that will sit on July 27, 2026.The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, which insists that Adeyemi’s council never received a kobo of budgetary allocation from the 2026 Budget because it couldn’t open an account with the CBN, due to inadequate documentation, forgot that private banks eagerly open bank accounts for ministries, departments and agencies.All that a government agency needs to open an account with the Central Bank of Nigeria is an introductory letter on a “government” letterhead paper, and the CBN will accept it as legit! Unlike private companies, government agencies are not required to provide the Corporate Affairs Commission or taxation documents to open bank accounts.Indeed, arguments that the council never received a kobo from the CBN fall through when you look at Adeyemi’s stylish dresses, his swank office and the fact that his 300 statutorily approved staff do not seem to have complained about unpaid salaries, personal emoluments and failure to meet operational costs.Adeyemi’s phantom council is said to have received a whopping N1,302,978,784, made up of N802,978,283 for personnel costs (like salaries), N200,000,0001 for overhead costs (like electricity bills), and N300,000,000 for capital projects (like purchase of vehicles).For Adeyemi’s council to draw funds from the annual budget of the Federal Government, all he needs to do is write a Request for Funds to an authority that collates all requests for funds from agencies within the relevant “supervising ministry.”Related NewsAshe declares readiness for Commonwealth GamesAmusan secures 2026 Diamond League final spotFirm sponsors football competition to promote healthy livingThe ministry’s consolidated request for funds is then forwarded to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, whose minister and permanent secretary need not even know those who contributed to or compiled the figures.When appropriated funds are going to be disbursed during the financial year, it will be via an instrument called Authority to Incur Expenditure that will be issued by a schedule officer of the Federal Ministry of Finance, who also does not necessarily need to personally know the individual officers who will receive the funds.The issuance of AIEs cascades down to Adeyemi’s Council, first from the Ministry of Finance, then to, say, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Presidency. There are so many gaps that can be exploited in an apparently elongated maze.There may never be physical contact between the officers who issue AIEs for the transfer of funds from one account to another within the CBN, whose officers, too, may not know all those who issued the AIEs to release funds.Adeyemi probably provided a deus ex machina, or a way of escape, for presidential Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, his alleged enabler, when he told activist Very Dark Man in a viral video that they never met, but had telephone conversations arranged by an intermediary who later died in a fire incident!“Unofficial” government spokespersons who claim that a Director in the Office of the SGF waived the government embargo on employment to give employment letters to Adeyemi’s staff could explain how the budget of Adeyemi’s council was prepared if indeed he was in detention, as he told VDM.Adeyemi’s claim to have paid Gbajabiamila N400m (through a proxy) because of “passion for the country… to bring foreign investors to Nigeria… When you… (are) desperate to serve, you can do anything,” elicited knowing chuckles.Another friend, who alludes to the trust deficit between Nigerians and the government, says, “It’s the latest wonder we are all chewing. I think the most appropriate thing (to do) is just to probe all those mentioned, for Nigerians to have trust.”If this counsel is adopted and the verdict of blindfolded Lady Justice is allowed to fall wherever it may, because there will be no sacred cows, justice can be served; while the innocent will be absolved, the guilty will be made to pay the punitive price. It is a good thing that the government has taken the matter to a court of law that will sit on July 27, 2026.The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com All that a government agency needs to open an account with the Central Bank of Nigeria is an introductory letter on a “government” letterhead paper, and the CBN will accept it as legit! Unlike private companies, government agencies are not required to provide the Corporate Affairs Commission or taxation documents to open bank accounts.Indeed, arguments that the council never received a kobo from the CBN fall through when you look at Adeyemi’s stylish dresses, his swank office and the fact that his 300 statutorily approved staff do not seem to have complained about unpaid salaries, personal emoluments and failure to meet operational costs.Adeyemi’s phantom council is said to have received a whopping N1,302,978,784, made up of N802,978,283 for personnel costs (like salaries), N200,000,0001 for overhead costs (like electricity bills), and N300,000,000 for capital projects (like purchase of vehicles).For Adeyemi’s council to draw funds from the annual budget of the Federal Government, all he needs to do is write a Request for Funds to an authority that collates all requests for funds from agencies within the relevant “supervising ministry.”Related NewsAshe declares readiness for Commonwealth GamesAmusan secures 2026 Diamond League final spotFirm sponsors football competition to promote healthy livingThe ministry’s consolidated request for funds is then forwarded to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, whose minister and permanent secretary need not even know those who contributed to or compiled the figures.When appropriated funds are going to be disbursed during the financial year, it will be via an instrument called Authority to Incur Expenditure that will be issued by a schedule officer of the Federal Ministry of Finance, who also does not necessarily need to personally know the individual officers who will receive the funds.The issuance of AIEs cascades down to Adeyemi’s Council, first from the Ministry of Finance, then to, say, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Presidency. There are so many gaps that can be exploited in an apparently elongated maze.There may never be physical contact between the officers who issue AIEs for the transfer of funds from one account to another within the CBN, whose officers, too, may not know all those who issued the AIEs to release funds.Adeyemi probably provided a deus ex machina, or a way of escape, for presidential Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, his alleged enabler, when he told activist Very Dark Man in a viral video that they never met, but had telephone conversations arranged by an intermediary who later died in a fire incident!“Unofficial” government spokespersons who claim that a Director in the Office of the SGF waived the government embargo on employment to give employment letters to Adeyemi’s staff could explain how the budget of Adeyemi’s council was prepared if indeed he was in detention, as he told VDM.Adeyemi’s claim to have paid Gbajabiamila N400m (through a proxy) because of “passion for the country… to bring foreign investors to Nigeria… When you… (are) desperate to serve, you can do anything,” elicited knowing chuckles.Another friend, who alludes to the trust deficit between Nigerians and the government, says, “It’s the latest wonder we are all chewing. I think the most appropriate thing (to do) is just to probe all those mentioned, for Nigerians to have trust.”If this counsel is adopted and the verdict of blindfolded Lady Justice is allowed to fall wherever it may, because there will be no sacred cows, justice can be served; while the innocent will be absolved, the guilty will be made to pay the punitive price. It is a good thing that the government has taken the matter to a court of law that will sit on July 27, 2026.The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com Indeed, arguments that the council never received a kobo from the CBN fall through when you look at Adeyemi’s stylish dresses, his swank office and the fact that his 300 statutorily approved staff do not seem to have complained about unpaid salaries, personal emoluments and failure to meet operational costs.Adeyemi’s phantom council is said to have received a whopping N1,302,978,784, made up of N802,978,283 for personnel costs (like salaries), N200,000,0001 for overhead costs (like electricity bills), and N300,000,000 for capital projects (like purchase of vehicles).For Adeyemi’s council to draw funds from the annual budget of the Federal Government, all he needs to do is write a Request for Funds to an authority that collates all requests for funds from agencies within the relevant “supervising ministry.”Related NewsAshe declares readiness for Commonwealth GamesAmusan secures 2026 Diamond League final spotFirm sponsors football competition to promote healthy livingThe ministry’s consolidated request for funds is then forwarded to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, whose minister and permanent secretary need not even know those who contributed to or compiled the figures.When appropriated funds are going to be disbursed during the financial year, it will be via an instrument called Authority to Incur Expenditure that will be issued by a schedule officer of the Federal Ministry of Finance, who also does not necessarily need to personally know the individual officers who will receive the funds.The issuance of AIEs cascades down to Adeyemi’s Council, first from the Ministry of Finance, then to, say, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Presidency. There are so many gaps that can be exploited in an apparently elongated maze.There may never be physical contact between the officers who issue AIEs for the transfer of funds from one account to another within the CBN, whose officers, too, may not know all those who issued the AIEs to release funds.Adeyemi probably provided a deus ex machina, or a way of escape, for presidential Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, his alleged enabler, when he told activist Very Dark Man in a viral video that they never met, but had telephone conversations arranged by an intermediary who later died in a fire incident!“Unofficial” government spokespersons who claim that a Director in the Office of the SGF waived the government embargo on employment to give employment letters to Adeyemi’s staff could explain how the budget of Adeyemi’s council was prepared if indeed he was in detention, as he told VDM.Adeyemi’s claim to have paid Gbajabiamila N400m (through a proxy) because of “passion for the country… to bring foreign investors to Nigeria… When you… (are) desperate to serve, you can do anything,” elicited knowing chuckles.Another friend, who alludes to the trust deficit between Nigerians and the government, says, “It’s the latest wonder we are all chewing. I think the most appropriate thing (to do) is just to probe all those mentioned, for Nigerians to have trust.”If this counsel is adopted and the verdict of blindfolded Lady Justice is allowed to fall wherever it may, because there will be no sacred cows, justice can be served; while the innocent will be absolved, the guilty will be made to pay the punitive price. It is a good thing that the government has taken the matter to a court of law that will sit on July 27, 2026.The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com Adeyemi’s phantom council is said to have received a whopping N1,302,978,784, made up of N802,978,283 for personnel costs (like salaries), N200,000,0001 for overhead costs (like electricity bills), and N300,000,000 for capital projects (like purchase of vehicles).For Adeyemi’s council to draw funds from the annual budget of the Federal Government, all he needs to do is write a Request for Funds to an authority that collates all requests for funds from agencies within the relevant “supervising ministry.”Related NewsAshe declares readiness for Commonwealth GamesAmusan secures 2026 Diamond League final spotFirm sponsors football competition to promote healthy livingThe ministry’s consolidated request for funds is then forwarded to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, whose minister and permanent secretary need not even know those who contributed to or compiled the figures.When appropriated funds are going to be disbursed during the financial year, it will be via an instrument called Authority to Incur Expenditure that will be issued by a schedule officer of the Federal Ministry of Finance, who also does not necessarily need to personally know the individual officers who will receive the funds.The issuance of AIEs cascades down to Adeyemi’s Council, first from the Ministry of Finance, then to, say, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Presidency. There are so many gaps that can be exploited in an apparently elongated maze.There may never be physical contact between the officers who issue AIEs for the transfer of funds from one account to another within the CBN, whose officers, too, may not know all those who issued the AIEs to release funds.Adeyemi probably provided a deus ex machina, or a way of escape, for presidential Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, his alleged enabler, when he told activist Very Dark Man in a viral video that they never met, but had telephone conversations arranged by an intermediary who later died in a fire incident!“Unofficial” government spokespersons who claim that a Director in the Office of the SGF waived the government embargo on employment to give employment letters to Adeyemi’s staff could explain how the budget of Adeyemi’s council was prepared if indeed he was in detention, as he told VDM.Adeyemi’s claim to have paid Gbajabiamila N400m (through a proxy) because of “passion for the country… to bring foreign investors to Nigeria… When you… (are) desperate to serve, you can do anything,” elicited knowing chuckles.Another friend, who alludes to the trust deficit between Nigerians and the government, says, “It’s the latest wonder we are all chewing. I think the most appropriate thing (to do) is just to probe all those mentioned, for Nigerians to have trust.”If this counsel is adopted and the verdict of blindfolded Lady Justice is allowed to fall wherever it may, because there will be no sacred cows, justice can be served; while the innocent will be absolved, the guilty will be made to pay the punitive price. It is a good thing that the government has taken the matter to a court of law that will sit on July 27, 2026.The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com For Adeyemi’s council to draw funds from the annual budget of the Federal Government, all he needs to do is write a Request for Funds to an authority that collates all requests for funds from agencies within the relevant “supervising ministry.”Related NewsAshe declares readiness for Commonwealth GamesAmusan secures 2026 Diamond League final spotFirm sponsors football competition to promote healthy livingThe ministry’s consolidated request for funds is then forwarded to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, whose minister and permanent secretary need not even know those who contributed to or compiled the figures.When appropriated funds are going to be disbursed during the financial year, it will be via an instrument called Authority to Incur Expenditure that will be issued by a schedule officer of the Federal Ministry of Finance, who also does not necessarily need to personally know the individual officers who will receive the funds.The issuance of AIEs cascades down to Adeyemi’s Council, first from the Ministry of Finance, then to, say, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Presidency. There are so many gaps that can be exploited in an apparently elongated maze.There may never be physical contact between the officers who issue AIEs for the transfer of funds from one account to another within the CBN, whose officers, too, may not know all those who issued the AIEs to release funds.Adeyemi probably provided a deus ex machina, or a way of escape, for presidential Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, his alleged enabler, when he told activist Very Dark Man in a viral video that they never met, but had telephone conversations arranged by an intermediary who later died in a fire incident!“Unofficial” government spokespersons who claim that a Director in the Office of the SGF waived the government embargo on employment to give employment letters to Adeyemi’s staff could explain how the budget of Adeyemi’s council was prepared if indeed he was in detention, as he told VDM.Adeyemi’s claim to have paid Gbajabiamila N400m (through a proxy) because of “passion for the country… to bring foreign investors to Nigeria… When you… (are) desperate to serve, you can do anything,” elicited knowing chuckles.Another friend, who alludes to the trust deficit between Nigerians and the government, says, “It’s the latest wonder we are all chewing. I think the most appropriate thing (to do) is just to probe all those mentioned, for Nigerians to have trust.”If this counsel is adopted and the verdict of blindfolded Lady Justice is allowed to fall wherever it may, because there will be no sacred cows, justice can be served; while the innocent will be absolved, the guilty will be made to pay the punitive price. It is a good thing that the government has taken the matter to a court of law that will sit on July 27, 2026.The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com The ministry’s consolidated request for funds is then forwarded to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, whose minister and permanent secretary need not even know those who contributed to or compiled the figures.When appropriated funds are going to be disbursed during the financial year, it will be via an instrument called Authority to Incur Expenditure that will be issued by a schedule officer of the Federal Ministry of Finance, who also does not necessarily need to personally know the individual officers who will receive the funds.The issuance of AIEs cascades down to Adeyemi’s Council, first from the Ministry of Finance, then to, say, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Presidency. There are so many gaps that can be exploited in an apparently elongated maze.There may never be physical contact between the officers who issue AIEs for the transfer of funds from one account to another within the CBN, whose officers, too, may not know all those who issued the AIEs to release funds.Adeyemi probably provided a deus ex machina, or a way of escape, for presidential Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, his alleged enabler, when he told activist Very Dark Man in a viral video that they never met, but had telephone conversations arranged by an intermediary who later died in a fire incident!“Unofficial” government spokespersons who claim that a Director in the Office of the SGF waived the government embargo on employment to give employment letters to Adeyemi’s staff could explain how the budget of Adeyemi’s council was prepared if indeed he was in detention, as he told VDM.Adeyemi’s claim to have paid Gbajabiamila N400m (through a proxy) because of “passion for the country… to bring foreign investors to Nigeria… When you… (are) desperate to serve, you can do anything,” elicited knowing chuckles.Another friend, who alludes to the trust deficit between Nigerians and the government, says, “It’s the latest wonder we are all chewing. I think the most appropriate thing (to do) is just to probe all those mentioned, for Nigerians to have trust.”If this counsel is adopted and the verdict of blindfolded Lady Justice is allowed to fall wherever it may, because there will be no sacred cows, justice can be served; while the innocent will be absolved, the guilty will be made to pay the punitive price. It is a good thing that the government has taken the matter to a court of law that will sit on July 27, 2026.The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com When appropriated funds are going to be disbursed during the financial year, it will be via an instrument called Authority to Incur Expenditure that will be issued by a schedule officer of the Federal Ministry of Finance, who also does not necessarily need to personally know the individual officers who will receive the funds.The issuance of AIEs cascades down to Adeyemi’s Council, first from the Ministry of Finance, then to, say, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Presidency. There are so many gaps that can be exploited in an apparently elongated maze.There may never be physical contact between the officers who issue AIEs for the transfer of funds from one account to another within the CBN, whose officers, too, may not know all those who issued the AIEs to release funds.Adeyemi probably provided a deus ex machina, or a way of escape, for presidential Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, his alleged enabler, when he told activist Very Dark Man in a viral video that they never met, but had telephone conversations arranged by an intermediary who later died in a fire incident!“Unofficial” government spokespersons who claim that a Director in the Office of the SGF waived the government embargo on employment to give employment letters to Adeyemi’s staff could explain how the budget of Adeyemi’s council was prepared if indeed he was in detention, as he told VDM.Adeyemi’s claim to have paid Gbajabiamila N400m (through a proxy) because of “passion for the country… to bring foreign investors to Nigeria… When you… (are) desperate to serve, you can do anything,” elicited knowing chuckles.Another friend, who alludes to the trust deficit between Nigerians and the government, says, “It’s the latest wonder we are all chewing. I think the most appropriate thing (to do) is just to probe all those mentioned, for Nigerians to have trust.”If this counsel is adopted and the verdict of blindfolded Lady Justice is allowed to fall wherever it may, because there will be no sacred cows, justice can be served; while the innocent will be absolved, the guilty will be made to pay the punitive price. It is a good thing that the government has taken the matter to a court of law that will sit on July 27, 2026.The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com The issuance of AIEs cascades down to Adeyemi’s Council, first from the Ministry of Finance, then to, say, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Presidency. There are so many gaps that can be exploited in an apparently elongated maze.There may never be physical contact between the officers who issue AIEs for the transfer of funds from one account to another within the CBN, whose officers, too, may not know all those who issued the AIEs to release funds.Adeyemi probably provided a deus ex machina, or a way of escape, for presidential Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, his alleged enabler, when he told activist Very Dark Man in a viral video that they never met, but had telephone conversations arranged by an intermediary who later died in a fire incident!“Unofficial” government spokespersons who claim that a Director in the Office of the SGF waived the government embargo on employment to give employment letters to Adeyemi’s staff could explain how the budget of Adeyemi’s council was prepared if indeed he was in detention, as he told VDM.Adeyemi’s claim to have paid Gbajabiamila N400m (through a proxy) because of “passion for the country… to bring foreign investors to Nigeria… When you… (are) desperate to serve, you can do anything,” elicited knowing chuckles.Another friend, who alludes to the trust deficit between Nigerians and the government, says, “It’s the latest wonder we are all chewing. I think the most appropriate thing (to do) is just to probe all those mentioned, for Nigerians to have trust.”If this counsel is adopted and the verdict of blindfolded Lady Justice is allowed to fall wherever it may, because there will be no sacred cows, justice can be served; while the innocent will be absolved, the guilty will be made to pay the punitive price. It is a good thing that the government has taken the matter to a court of law that will sit on July 27, 2026.The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com There may never be physical contact between the officers who issue AIEs for the transfer of funds from one account to another within the CBN, whose officers, too, may not know all those who issued the AIEs to release funds.Adeyemi probably provided a deus ex machina, or a way of escape, for presidential Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, his alleged enabler, when he told activist Very Dark Man in a viral video that they never met, but had telephone conversations arranged by an intermediary who later died in a fire incident!“Unofficial” government spokespersons who claim that a Director in the Office of the SGF waived the government embargo on employment to give employment letters to Adeyemi’s staff could explain how the budget of Adeyemi’s council was prepared if indeed he was in detention, as he told VDM.Adeyemi’s claim to have paid Gbajabiamila N400m (through a proxy) because of “passion for the country… to bring foreign investors to Nigeria… When you… (are) desperate to serve, you can do anything,” elicited knowing chuckles.Another friend, who alludes to the trust deficit between Nigerians and the government, says, “It’s the latest wonder we are all chewing. I think the most appropriate thing (to do) is just to probe all those mentioned, for Nigerians to have trust.”If this counsel is adopted and the verdict of blindfolded Lady Justice is allowed to fall wherever it may, because there will be no sacred cows, justice can be served; while the innocent will be absolved, the guilty will be made to pay the punitive price. It is a good thing that the government has taken the matter to a court of law that will sit on July 27, 2026.The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com Adeyemi probably provided a deus ex machina, or a way of escape, for presidential Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, his alleged enabler, when he told activist Very Dark Man in a viral video that they never met, but had telephone conversations arranged by an intermediary who later died in a fire incident!“Unofficial” government spokespersons who claim that a Director in the Office of the SGF waived the government embargo on employment to give employment letters to Adeyemi’s staff could explain how the budget of Adeyemi’s council was prepared if indeed he was in detention, as he told VDM.Adeyemi’s claim to have paid Gbajabiamila N400m (through a proxy) because of “passion for the country… to bring foreign investors to Nigeria… When you… (are) desperate to serve, you can do anything,” elicited knowing chuckles.Another friend, who alludes to the trust deficit between Nigerians and the government, says, “It’s the latest wonder we are all chewing. I think the most appropriate thing (to do) is just to probe all those mentioned, for Nigerians to have trust.”If this counsel is adopted and the verdict of blindfolded Lady Justice is allowed to fall wherever it may, because there will be no sacred cows, justice can be served; while the innocent will be absolved, the guilty will be made to pay the punitive price. It is a good thing that the government has taken the matter to a court of law that will sit on July 27, 2026.The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com “Unofficial” government spokespersons who claim that a Director in the Office of the SGF waived the government embargo on employment to give employment letters to Adeyemi’s staff could explain how the budget of Adeyemi’s council was prepared if indeed he was in detention, as he told VDM.Adeyemi’s claim to have paid Gbajabiamila N400m (through a proxy) because of “passion for the country… to bring foreign investors to Nigeria… When you… (are) desperate to serve, you can do anything,” elicited knowing chuckles.Another friend, who alludes to the trust deficit between Nigerians and the government, says, “It’s the latest wonder we are all chewing. I think the most appropriate thing (to do) is just to probe all those mentioned, for Nigerians to have trust.”If this counsel is adopted and the verdict of blindfolded Lady Justice is allowed to fall wherever it may, because there will be no sacred cows, justice can be served; while the innocent will be absolved, the guilty will be made to pay the punitive price. It is a good thing that the government has taken the matter to a court of law that will sit on July 27, 2026.The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com Adeyemi’s claim to have paid Gbajabiamila N400m (through a proxy) because of “passion for the country… to bring foreign investors to Nigeria… When you… (are) desperate to serve, you can do anything,” elicited knowing chuckles.Another friend, who alludes to the trust deficit between Nigerians and the government, says, “It’s the latest wonder we are all chewing. I think the most appropriate thing (to do) is just to probe all those mentioned, for Nigerians to have trust.”If this counsel is adopted and the verdict of blindfolded Lady Justice is allowed to fall wherever it may, because there will be no sacred cows, justice can be served; while the innocent will be absolved, the guilty will be made to pay the punitive price. It is a good thing that the government has taken the matter to a court of law that will sit on July 27, 2026.The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com Another friend, who alludes to the trust deficit between Nigerians and the government, says, “It’s the latest wonder we are all chewing. I think the most appropriate thing (to do) is just to probe all those mentioned, for Nigerians to have trust.”If this counsel is adopted and the verdict of blindfolded Lady Justice is allowed to fall wherever it may, because there will be no sacred cows, justice can be served; while the innocent will be absolved, the guilty will be made to pay the punitive price. It is a good thing that the government has taken the matter to a court of law that will sit on July 27, 2026.The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com If this counsel is adopted and the verdict of blindfolded Lady Justice is allowed to fall wherever it may, because there will be no sacred cows, justice can be served; while the innocent will be absolved, the guilty will be made to pay the punitive price. It is a good thing that the government has taken the matter to a court of law that will sit on July 27, 2026.The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com The Yoruba often tell a child who keeps bad company, “Ijakumo kii rin ode osan, eni a bi ire ki ri’ru.” This means that nocturnal animals do not prowl in the day, as children with a good pedigree would not lurk in the dark.President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com President Tinubu may know that when Roman Emperor Julius Caesar found out that a young nobleman, Publius Clodius Pulcher, attended an all-female party hosted by his wife, Pompeia, he promptly divorced her, saying, “My wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com Notwithstanding security reports that the President may have, and because he has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the mess, the optics dictate that anyone accused in this messy affair should step down.The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com The President should swiftly act as he did when he removed Betta Edu as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation without a court establishing corruption allegations against her.Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com Is it “Quando, or Quo Vadis?”X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com X:@lekansote1, lekansote.com