Playwright, Prof Wole Soyinka, has said the country’s administration should be the duty of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, and not that of the new Chief of Staff, Prof lbrahim Gambari.
Soyinka, who noted that Gambari wouldn’t make any difference, spoke during an interview programme titled, One-On-One, aired onThe elder statesman stated that he read the excitement over the appointment of Gambari as replacement for the late ex-Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, and something struck him about it.
“And then you have others who now weigh in the merits and the potential of the new CoS and they now try to measure the hopes, the possibilities of restructuring on account of CoS whom we should not even see or know about. I read something by Balarabe Musa. There, he was surprisingly making excuses in advance for the failure of the new CoS, as if it’s the CoS we should be looking at, and when I say making excuses, he was praising Gambari to the skies.
“Gambari was an Abacha man which means that he has Abacha status quo mentality. Let’s put it that way. Gambari is not going to make any difference here, he is just going to make sure that he’s looking after his portfolio over there. So why are we looking in that direction for salvation in this country? I didn’t want to join in that debate because I want him to enjoy his stay. But I know Gambari, very, very well.
“And he said that when Jubril Aminu, I think it was petroleum sector at the time, he said when he took over, he called him, he was working there, he called him and said he wanted a list of all the top civil servants, the top officials there and he said he particularly wanted him to single out the Yoruba, to mark them foreign. And he said why? He said well, too many of them around here and I’m going to take action about that.
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