Nigeria, July 1 -- In recent days, the country has been thrown into a storm, not just dust, over a matter involving the Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, that reads less like bureaucracy and more like a political thriller. The trigger is a Daily Trust report published on Wednesday, 1st July 2026, titled "Questions over 'phantom' council," which laid bare a controversy surrounding the so-called Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, also styled as the Presidential Economic Advisory Council.

On one side is a disclaimer dated June 11, 2026, from Gbajabiamila, who said the Office of the Chief of Staff had no hand in appointing Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi and that the council "does not exist under this administration." On the other...