A member of the House of Representatives Committee investigating alleged irregularities in federal appointments, Hon. Yusuf Gagdi, has clarified that the appointment letters issued by the Office of the Chief of Staff to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for nine federal agencies were authentic, insisting that only the letter appointing a purported Director-General was forged.
Gagdi made the clarification amid growing public concern over the authenticity of several appointment letters reportedly emanating from the Office of the Chief of Staff to the President.
According to the lawmaker, the committee’s findings confirmed that the signatures on appointment letters relating to nine federal agencies were genuine, dismissing suggestions that they had been forged.
He explained, however, that investigators identified only one fraudulent document—the appointment letter of a purported Director-General—which he described as fake.
“The signatures of Tinubu’s Chief of Staff to nine agencies were correct, only the appointment of Fake DG was fake,” Gagdi said.
His clarification comes against the backdrop of heightened public scrutiny over alleged document forgery involving federal appointments and concerns about the integrity of official correspondence issued from the Presidency.
The lawmaker maintained that the committee’s investigation established that, contrary to widespread speculation, only the purported Director-General’s appointment letter was forged, while the remaining appointment letters bearing the Chief of Staff’s signature were found to be authentic.
