OPINION: Ibrahim Gambari: To aid or to abet?
Because I know Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari rather well, I had initially decided not to participate in the conversations marking his taking of the office of Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari.
The question is WHY Gambari took the job and whether he will bring to it his patriotic intellectual and administrative best—and perhaps his final flourish—as a public servant. “The standards for recruitment and the performance of our individual leaders over the years have left much to be desired. We do not need leaders who see themselves as champions of only some sections of our population. We do not need leaders who do not understand the economic and political problems of the country, not to talk of finding durable solutions for them. We do not need leaders who are more interested in silencing their opponents, than in pursuing justice.
“When a Nigerian leader, by words and deeds, is able to convince a large enough section of the Nigerian elites and the wider public about a vision for a greater tomorrow, then Nigeria will truly be on the way to national greatness…nations are built by men and women who have the will and vision to accomplish greatness, not for themselves, their immediate families and friends, but for their country…”It is this definition of the concern that makes me hopeful that perhaps Gambari did not stumble...
That was just two years ago, and he clearly was also referring to the leadership he opted to join just weeks ago. Could he have made the decision merely to become one of them, or to inspire a nation that has been extremely good to him? In the years in which I have had the terrible fortune of meeting many members of this so-called elite, I have rarely encountered any with genuine concern for the talented Nigerian unless he can be exploited, and the failure of governance is easier to understand. Away from the cameras or the microphone, they have no compunction taking the milk bottle from the baby. If it dies, it dies.
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