The recent allegations against the Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu and subsequent clarifications by the Presidency should raise concerns about institutional reforms for improved service delivery in Nigeria. Whatever way you look at it, it is bad. If you take the Presidency’s statement about the illegality of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) and Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC) on the face value, it is bad. How does someone and an entity infiltrate the system, get inserted into the 2026 budget (a signed budget is legally binding and is a law by the way) and operate from the federal secretariat in Abuja for months in 2025? There are plausible reasons to believe they enjoyed some backing of sorts from possible ‘ogas at the top’.
#Gbajagate: The tripartite narrative of media framing, political scapegoating, and demanding institutional reforms, By Adeolu Adekola
