The 75-year-old COS has come under attack from these persons who accused him of treachery, among other things. IbrahimGambari ChiefOfStaff Nigeria
Whatever public reaction Prof Ibrahim Agboola Gambari expected of his appointment as President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief Of Staff , he probably didn’t imagine the bile from some individuals he had dealings with in the course of his past public life.
But, back home, Gambari’s critics have been unsparing in attempting to sell him as an untrustworthy person and his COS appointment as a disaster.Chief among the dissenting voices is the respectable Ambassador Dapo Fafowora, who shared a personal opinion of the COS in a piece, ‘Buhari’s New Chief Of Staff Is Gambari Is More Subtle And Even More Dangerous Than Late Abba Kyari’. In it, he accuses Gambari of, among other things, scheming to oust him from his job.
Whether that is the case or not, we may never know because like Kyari before him, Gambari has, for whatever reason, declined to state his side of the story. The latter’s decision to keep mum has perhaps resulted in what author Chimamanda Adichie called the “Danger of a Single Story”, in her 2009 TED Talk.
Of particular note is his secondhand tale of Gambari’s alleged sour 1983 episode with Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi who was then coming off as the Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs . Fayemi said: “Around the third week of September 1998, I received a rather surprising call from Professor Ibrahim Gambari, Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations. I had come to respect and like Professor Gambari in the years of our struggle. He became clearly one of our strongest opponents on the diplomatic turf in the sense that he never indulged in any sycophantic praise of the dictatorship in Nigeria.
“By the time I got through to Professor Soyinka, Professor Gambari had already reached him by other means. Professor Soyinka quickly summoned a teleconference of the steering committee of the UDFN to discuss the reason for Gambari’s call. It turned out that the new head of state, General Abdul-Salami Abubakar, was on his way to New York for the General Assembly of the United Nations and had requested a meeting with Professor Soyinka.
The rights activist describes Gambari, based on his personal experience and encounters as “a decent gentleman and a fine trust-worthy Nigerian patriot.” “To me, this is an opportunity for this former senior lecturer, professor at Ahmadu Bello University and diplomatic Czar to push for the implementation of some of the most urgent recommendations out of the over 600 well thought out recommendations contained in the National Conference report, but which this government had surprisingly shoved into the cold archives of historical oblivion.”The former presidential candidate of the Young Progressive Party backed Gambari to succeed in his new job.
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