The legal defence team of the self-acclaimed Director-General of the controversial Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC) Adeniyi Adeyemi, has insisted that that their client is “being made a scapegoat to cover up deep-seated institutional lapses…within government structure”. Adeyemi’s defence team stated this in a statement on Sunday through his legal defence team signed by Festus AkhigbeThe defence maintained that Adeyemi was being made “a scapegoat to cover up deep-seated institutional lapses, procedural breakdowns and internal approvals within the government structure.” “We formally request that the panel issue the necessary administrative clearance to allow our client, Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew, to appear in person and testify. Adeyemi’s lawyers rejected what they described as attempts to portray their client as “an isolated, mastermind impostor” who fabricated a government agency without institutional backing. “It is an administrative impossibility for an unassisted individual to mislead every arm of the Federal Government simultaneously without official, high-level institutional sanction.”