Ibrahim Gambari, former chief of staff to the late ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, says some members of the president’s “cabal” bypassed official protocol to get memos directly to him.
Buhari, says some members of the president’s “cabal” bypassed official protocol to get memos directly to him., Gambari said that despite Buhari’s directive that all official communications be routed through the chief of staff, influential individuals within his inner circle found ways to sidestep the order.
“When I came as chief of staff to the president, he made a statement publicly. He said all memos must go through the chief of staff before coming to him.”Gambari noted that despite the backdoor channels, many memos still ended up on his desk, allowing him a degree of oversight. Buhari, who died on Sunday at a London clinic, United Kingdom , was buried on Tuesday in his hometown, Daura, Katsina state.Gambari said the cabal, which is synonymous with a think tank or “kitchen cabinet ” on which a president relies, was not peculiar to Buhari’s presidency.“They say there’s a cabal or was a cabal — there was, but every government has a cabal. It is what they call them,” he said.
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