The Budget Office has confirmed that no public funds were released to the non-existent Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, despite its inclusion in the 2026 Appropriation Act. Director-General Tanimu Yakubu testified that financial controls successfully blocked the N1.3 billion allocation, noting that no warrants or cash-backing were issued. The House of Representatives committee investigating the scandal is now shifting its focus from individual culpability to identifying the systemic bureaucratic failures that allowed forged documents to grant the fake agency official status across multiple government institutions.