African Democratic Congress presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar accuses President Bola Tinubu of implicitly supporting his Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, amid the PFIPC scandal. Atiku, speaking through his media aide Paul Ibe, says the president’s actions are inconsistent and points to what he describes as links between a new appointment and an ICPC investigation. The allegation follows Tinubu’s appointment of Gbajabiamila as chairman of the Presidential Working Group on the National Policing Bill, an arrangement reported to have been inaugurated by the president. Atiku also references the same day’s order by Tinubu directing the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to probe the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC) controversy. Atiku argues that placing Gbajabiamila in the working group while also having him involved in the PFIPC probe is, in his view, a “smokescreen” and a vote of confidence in a person he says has been accused in connection with the scandal. Both accounts attribute the claims to Atiku; the sources do not provide responses or findings from Tinubu, Gbajabiamila, or the ICPC.