The only man who could confirm how Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew (also referred to as Adeyemi Adeniyi Matthew) got a presidential appointment letter died in a hotel fire.
Five days before Prince Adeyemi was arrested.
Let me lay out the timeline exactly as the official documents show it.
October 10, 2025 — Adeyemi hosts foreign ambassadors at Wells Carlton Hotel, Asokoro. No Ministry of Foreign Affairs involvement. No government knowledge.
October 15 — Ministry of Foreign Affairs flags the meeting and writes to the National Security Adviser (NSA) and Chief of Staff demanding clarification.
October 17 — Chief of Staff petitions the Department of State Security (DSS) and Police to investigate forgers and impostors.
October 22 — Dolapo Babatunde Tanimola, the man Adeyemi would later tell police helped him procure the forged presidential appointment letter, dies in a fire at Kachi Hotel in Utako, Abuja.
October 27 — Adeyemi is arrested at his Federal Secretariat office.
In his statement to police, he names Tanimola as his key accomplice. Police go looking for Tanimola. They find a morgue.
There is no independent news report of a fire at Kachi Hotel in Utako in October 2025. Not from Channels. Not from Punch. Not from any Abuja news desk.
The only place this fire exists in the public record is inside the Presidency’s own statement about Tanimola’s death.
A man dies in a hotel fire in Abuja, and it generates zero media coverage at the time.
The police confirmed his death through four separate channels:
- interviews with his relatives,
- the hotel proprietor,
- records at the National Hospital, and,
- burial confirmation from St Matthew’s Anglican Church in Maitama.
That is an unusually thorough verification process for a routine hotel fire.
