Opinion: Ibrahim Agboola Gambari: Chief of Staff Or Economic Policy Tsar?, By Arbiterz
How will Professor Gambari use these powers in the sphere of economic policy making and what is the appropriate role of a chief of staff regarding economic policy-making in a Presidency?The question above should have been what is the role of the Presidency in policy development, had a former secretary to the government not posed the now famous question: “His question confirmed to many Nigerians that in the Buhari Presidency, power is dispersed; the president is not always the unquestionable...
This will not change. The new chief of staff has been appointed to coordinate government for the president. This is why the role could be given only to an old ally that the president can really trust and who is deemed, in the estimation of President Buhari and his closest advisers, to have the required intellectual heft .
Considering that the professor has had a career in which negotiation and persuading others on the basis of evidence is a requisite skill, he could be more open to evaluating the evidence and advice presented by economists, specialists and expert advisers. He could be a wider funnel, collating these evidence and expert information and in turn presenting these to the president.
There is no evidence that President Buhari’s antipathy towards the free market and multilateral development institutions has changed. There is also no evidence that Professor Ibrahim Gambari, unlike the late Mr. Abba Kyari, shares these views. Will the new chief of staff therefore seek to lessen the influence of his principal’s worldview,A genuine academic, rather than a presumptuous dabbler and ideologue, the professor could be more conscious of the limits of his specialisation.
But Professor Gambari could also choose not to be the adviser who presents unwanted evidence, seeing his job as strictly supporting and executing President Buhari’s views on policy. Afterall, some of the bold decisions that need to be taken, such as floating the naira or trimming the nation’s civil service, are reforms which will meet with public opposition.
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