Fake Presidential Documents, N603.4m Deal: EFCC Arraigns Alleged NNPC Job Fixers in Abuja

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, February 9, 2026, arraigned Gidado Ibrahim and Halimat Adenike Tejuosho (currently at large) before Justice H. Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Maitama, Abuja, over an alleged N603.4 million job scam tied to a promised appointment at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

Tejuosho, who was arraigned in absentia, and Ibrahim were docked on an amended six-count charge bordering on fraud, obtaining money by false pretence, and forgery, involving a total sum of N603,400,000.00.
At the proceedings, prosecution counsel, Y. Tarfa, drew the court’s attention to the amended charge and urged the court to allow the defendant to take his plea. Ibrahim pleaded not guilty to all six counts when they were read to him.

According to the prosecution, the defendants allegedly obtained the sum from Oluseye Yomi-Sholoye between August and October 2024, under the false pretence that they would facilitate her appointment as Group Managing Director (GMD) of the NNPC, a claim the EFCC said the defendants knew to be false.

Count one of the charge states that the defendants obtained the money through misrepresentation, an offence contrary to Section 1(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006, and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.
In count two, Ibrahim was accused of using as genuine a forged document titled “Presidential Villa State House, Office of the National Security Adviser,” knowing or having reason to believe that the document was forged, contrary to Sections 366 and 364 of the Penal Code Law.

Following the not-guilty plea, Tarfa applied for a trial date and urged the court to remand the defendant in a correctional facility pending trial.
Defence counsel, B. B. Alhaji, informed the court that a bail application had been filed but was not yet ripe for hearing. He urged the court to remand the defendant in EFCC custody rather than a correctional centre, citing his client’s health condition.

Justice Muazu adjourned the matter to February 17, 2026, for hearing of the bail application and ordered that the defendant be remanded at the Kuje Correctional Facility.

The complainant, Yomi-Sholoye, is a Lagos-based General Overseer of a white garment church and a former oil industry professional who previously worked with Texaco and Chevron.
Investigations into the matter are ongoing, particularly regarding the second defendant who remains at large.