Former Science and Technology Minister, Uche Nnaji and the embattled Director-General (DG) of a ‘non-existent’ Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, are to be arraigned before the Federal High Court in Abuja, today and tomorrow.
Nnaji will be arraigned before Justice Joyce Abdulmalik by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) while Prince Adeyemi will be arraigned before Justice Mohammed Umar on a charge filed by the Nigeria Police Force (NPF).
The immediate past minister resigned some months ago after President Bola Tinubu directed him to step down following allegation of his involvement in certificate forgery.
He was alleged to have forged the University of Nigeria Degree certificate and that of the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC).
Details of the charge filed against Nnaji by the ICPC could not be obtained yesterday.
Adeyemi is to be arraigned on an eight-count charge, marked FHC/ABJ/CR/562/2025, filed by Wisdom Madaki of the Legal Department of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) on November 27 last year.
Adeyemi and two others are listed as defendants in the charge bordering on forgery and impersonation and related offences.
They are to be arraigned before Justice Mohammed Umar, also of the Federal High Court, Abuja, who at the last mention of the case on June 16, when the arraignment was earlier planned, had to adjourn till July 14 upon information that Adeyemi was said to be indisposed.
In the court documents, the prosecution listed names of some of its witnesses and also identified some exhibits it hopes to rely on.
Some of the listed exhibits are the police investigation report, the petition by the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila to the police, dated October 17, 2025; Adeyemi’s ‘fake presidential appointment letter’ dated March 8, 2024, copy of a note verbal allegedly sent by Adeyemi to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the approvals he got to open accounts with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN); request for approval of self-accounting Adeyemi sent to the AGoF and the conveyance of approval for take-off of the PFIPC.
Other documents listed by the prosecution also include a letter of request for collaboration with the ministry in the area of land acquisition and offices across the 36 states of the federation; statements of all the witnesses and the defendants; and pictures.
The planned witnesses include Gbajabiamila, Paul Emmanuel, Jeremiah Imoukhede and Ituah Sylvester.
There are also civil servants working in the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGoF), along with Akinbo Shola and Adamu Balongu, a Deputy Superintendent of Police and Joy Ngwoke, who is said to be the owner of Kachi Hotel, Abuja where Adeyemi’s alleged accomplice, Dolapo Babatunde Tanimola purportedly died from a fire incident.
Also listed is Venerable Okoriko, said to be the pastor of St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, Maitama, where a funeral service was allegedly held for Tanimola.
Others are: Ojo Victor, Omeh Amarachukwu and Wakili Saidu, all of whom were said to have been deployed to work in Adeyemi’s agency.
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