PROFILES of President Muhammadu Buhari’s kitchen cabinet members show not only that they all graduated from prestigious universities in the United Kingdom but they also have a substantial background in journalism.

This was pointed out on Sunday by Martins Oloja, editorial board member and former editor at the Guardian newspaper, in an opinion article. The institutions attended by the president’s men include the University of Cambridge in England, University of Dublin in Ireland, Manchester University, and University of Sussex.

Oloja had argued in the first part of the article published on September 15 that surrounding himself with an experienced and well-educated “cabal” enabled Buhari to take “control of the three arms of government with his men from his region and religion”.

These kitchen cabinet members include Chief of Staff Abba Kyari, Alhaji Mamman Daura, Alhaji Ismaila Funtua, and Alhaji Babagana Kingibe. According to Oloja, they are “some of the brightest men he [Buhari] can trust from his region” and a wrong understanding of them has also led many into underrating Buhari himself.

“Only some members of the aristocracy of the Nigerian mass media may know that there is sense in which one can claim that the best profession in the world, journalism actually brought together this triumvirate of powerful men behind the president (Daura, Ismaila and Kingibe),” the columnist wrote on Sunday.

“In other words, these are not ordinary men. They are very educated. They are very British (they were all educated in ‘Great Britain’). They all understand the history of their relationship with the very British colonial masters who taught them to understand the peculiarities that define our complex diversity.”

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