OpEd: Ibrahim Gambari: The Trails Of Treachery By Remi Oyeyemi | Sahara Reporters As I write this, three incumbent Ministers in the cabinet of MBuhari are trying to contain their disgust about his appointment. Two of them are... READ MORE:
Prof. Gambari, like Salih Janta, also known as Shehu Alimi, his ancestor who murdered the Yorùbá owners of Ìlorin, uses subtlety, intricate relationship to gain your trust and put in the dagger when you're not expecting. The Gambaris of this world are the reasons for the aphorismic sobriquet"Ìlorin mèsú jàmbá." Literally, it means"Ìlorin, the treacherous.
Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi would be coming off as the Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs in 1983. For whatever reasons, Prof. Gambari did not like the competition and the competitor. He went to works. He manufactured fatuous tall tales to malign the person and character of Prof. Akinyemi. He lied against him unabashedly. His fictitious stories were so powerful that Prof. Akinyemi was subjected to very serious interrogations and he was almost clamped into the gulag.
For those who have read Amb. Fafowora's comments on Prof. Gambari which had gone viral, what Amb. Fafowora did not disclose in those comments are legion. They are too personal and private and should be left out for the sake of Prof. Gambari's wife. The point is that Prof. Gambari has compiled a resume of treachery against several of his benefactors, friends, colleagues and mere acquaintances who might have come within his range.
I met Prof. Gambari in New York in 1996. He was the Nigerian Ambassador to the United Nations. We met for the first time in the evening of the day I had gone to testify at the Kansas' Senator Nancy Kassenbaum's inspired Senate Hearings on General Sani Abacha regime asking for sanctions. During our meeting, it was obvious what his mission was. But we could not click for obvious reasons.
He defended Abacha Regime very truculently. He made it clear in his utterances and statements that he was anti - people. He, without remorse and for his own selfish ends, edified tyranny and the destruction of democracy. This obviously was easier for him as a Fulani hegemonist. As a scion of a feudalist institution already percolating as rulers over another man's land that doesn't belong to them in whatever fashion, his acts of treacheries are not out of character.
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