Arise Television anchor Reuben Abati has called on the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs Didi Esther Walson-Jack, to resign over her admission that due diligence was not properly carried out before the disputed Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) gained recognition.
Abati made the call on Thursday’s edition of The Morning Show, reacting to the House of Representatives probe into the agency’s activities.
He said Walson-Jack’s admission of lapses amounted to self-indictment and should carry personal consequences.
“The question of self-indictment and her admission of guilt and lack of diligence should be properly looked into because in other countries of the world, this admission will have been followed with a letter of resignation,” Abati said. “What the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation has just done is to say that her department has failed the country in the discharge of the professional responsibility of that office.”
He questioned how officials assigned staff to PFIPC’s self-acclaimed Director-General, Adeyemi Adeniyi, without first verifying the agency’s Establishment Act.
“They gave the self-acclaimed Director-General of the PFIPC, Adeyemi Adeniyi, staff without even establishing the authenticity of the Establishment Act, making him the Director-General of that ghost agency,” he said.
Abati called for a broader audit to determine whether similar irregularities exist across government agencies.
“How many other agencies of government, whether presidential or statutory, have been created and have been given staff, given offices, put in the budget on the value and strength of fake documents?” he asked.
He described the episode as an embarrassment to Nigeria’s image and insisted resignation remains Walson-Jack’s personal responsibility.
“It’s a ridicule very clearly of how the Nigerian government is run. So resignation will be a personal responsibility of Mrs Walson-Jack,” he added.
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