A devil is a devil anywhere....As Nigeria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ibrahim Gambari, Buhari's new Chief of Staff, was the principal international apologist for Abacha's murder of Ken Saro Wiwa and the Ogoni activists. He has blood on his hands.

Gambari is worst than Abba Kyari-Fromer Mentor says

https://thelagosianmagazine.com.ng/2020/05/13/even-before-hes-sworn-in-the-past-is-creeping-back-on-prof-ibrahim-agboola-gambari-as-a-former-mentor-calls-him-out/

Gambari is worst than Abba Kyari
Ambassador Dapo Fafowora on Prof Agboola Gambari*
I know him quite well. I was the one who in 1981 brought him to the UN at his request as a member of the Nigerian delegation. He was then a senior lecturer at the ABU. In fact, the late Prof Audu, who was then Foreign Minister actually advised me against inviting him to the UN. But he had strong academic credentials which impressed me. He had obtained his first degree in political science from the LSE, and a doctorate from Colombia University in New York. We were looking for strong delegates to the UN General Assembly and I considered him the kind of delegates we were looking for. So I invited him as one of our delegates to the UN General Assembly. He was at the UN in New York with me. I gave him and his wife my city apartment which I was not using free for 3 months plus a car. I liked him and I was not seeking any favours from him. After 3 months he returned home and sent me a note thanking me for giving him the first opportunity to visit the UN as a delegate and giving him his first experience at multilateral diplomacy. However, he sent President Shagari a secret and private note that while he was at the UN he observed that I had not been attending the meeting of Islamic states at the UN. President Shagari sent the note to Prof Audu who forwarded it to me in New York. He didn't even ask me for any comments on Gambari's secret memo as Prof Audu fully understood that Nigeria had traditionally not been attending meetings if the Islamic states as we were not then a member of the Group. Gambari asked for a private meeting with President Shagari which Prof Audu advised against. I was shocked that someone I had helped so much turned round to betray me so blatantly. I did not tell him I knew about the secret letter he had sent to the UN. When Shagari was overthrown by Buhari Gambari became Foreign Minister. When career ambassadors were being suddenly retired I was at first not on the list. But Gambari, now FM and Rafindadi, the head of the NSO who had worked under me in London, and was now head of the NSO worked together to secure my retirement. In fact, when I called him from New York to confirm from him news about my retirement he first denied it. Thereafter, he no longer took my calls. In fact, I remained at my post in New York for another 3 months during which the MFA tried to reverse the decision to retire me. I had done absolutely nothing wrong in my entire career in the diplomatic service and only got into trouble for helping a young academic who turned against me to fulfil his own personal ambition. Since then, he and I have only met twice in very difficult circumstances. First at a dinner by a mutual friend in New York several years after my retirement. He could barely look directly at me. He was clearly embarrassed. Then when Buhari won the elections in 2015 I headed a team that was set up to prepare a paper for him on our Foreign Policy. Subsequently, Alhaji Joda asked him to join the team. Last year, he suddenly called me to ask if I would kindly represent him at a public lecture he had agreed to chair. I told him I could not and that he should look for someone younger. He immediately hung up on me. Now, ha may be the kind of person Buhari is looking for to succeed Abba Kyari as COS. They are very much alike but Gambari is more subtle and even more dangerous and will substitute the national interests for his own personal interests. I have no doubt about that. What I have written in this long piece is just some of my personal experience and encounter with him. Everything I have written here is in my memoirs 'Lest I Forget 'which he has seen and read. It is nothing new. But I think it important that the character of our top govt officials should be revealed and not covered up. We have, as a nation, paid dearly for supporting appointments to high office that are often detrimental to our nation. Enough is enough and this has to stop.

Make e replace all these bootlickers around am

Imagine the presidency of a country like Nigeria looks like almajari HQ

Aboki to take over....see as them flenty everywhere.

.

May GOD help u

Africana1123:
Cos done turn President for Nigeria

IS THAT ELRUFAI, THE SMD?

ANGELS ARE AROUND.

Digitalstarlite:
Anoda crop of advance almagiri has just been appointed by lifeless as cabals

Me, l dey see this advance almagiri better pass advance palm wine taper. Thank God, the lifeless understand this and appointed the right cabals.

winj:
Imagine the presidency of a country like Nigeria looks like almajari HQ

There was a time it was looking like ogogoro HQ

ugolinze123:
Aboki to take over....see as them flenty everywhere.

The thing dey pain inyamiri too much

ENIGMATIC2023:
Gambari is worst than Abba Kyari
Ambassador Dapo Fafowora on Prof Agboola Gambari*
I know him quite well. I was the one who in 1981 brought him to the UN at his request as a member of the Nigerian delegation. He was then a senior lecturer at the ABU. In fact, the late Prof Audu, who was then Foreign Minister actually advised me against inviting him to the UN. But he had strong academic credentials which impressed me. He had obtained his first degree in political science from the LSE, and a doctorate from Colombia University in New York. We were looking for strong delegates to the UN General Assembly and I considered him the kind of delegates we were looking for. So I invited him as one of our delegates to the UN General Assembly. He was at the UN in New York with me. I gave him and his wife my city apartment which I was not using free for 3 months plus a car. I liked him and I was not seeking any favours from him. After 3 months he returned home and sent me a note thanking me for giving him the first opportunity to visit the UN as a delegate and giving him his first experience at multilateral diplomacy. However, he sent President Shagari a secret and private note that while he was at the UN he observed that I had not been attending the meeting of Islamic states at the UN. President Shagari sent the note to Prof Audu who forwarded it to me in New York. He didn't even ask me for any comments on Gambari's secret memo as Prof Audu fully understood that Nigeria had traditionally not been attending meetings if the Islamic states as we were not then a member of the Group. Gambari asked for a private meeting with President Shagari which Prof Audu advised against. I was shocked that someone I had helped so much turned round to betray me so blatantly. I did not tell him I knew about the secret letter he had sent to the UN. When Shagari was overthrown by Buhari Gambari became Foreign Minister. When career ambassadors were being suddenly retired I was at first not on the list. But Gambari, now FM and Rafindadi, the head of the NSO who had worked under me in London, and was now head of the NSO worked together to secure my retirement. In fact, when I called him from New York to confirm from him news about my retirement he first denied it. Thereafter, he no longer took my calls. In fact, I remained at my post in New York for another 3 months during which the MFA tried to reverse the decision to retire me. I had done absolutely nothing wrong in my entire career in the diplomatic service and only got into trouble for helping a young academic who turned against me to fulfil his own personal ambition. Since then, he and I have only met twice in very difficult circumstances. First at a dinner by a mutual friend in New York several years after my retirement. He could barely look directly at me. He was clearly embarrassed. Then when Buhari won the elections in 2015 I headed a team that was set up to prepare a paper for him on our Foreign Policy. Subsequently, Alhaji Joda asked him to join the team. Last year, he suddenly called me to ask if I would kindly represent him at a public lecture he had agreed to chair. I told him I could not and that he should look for someone younger. He immediately hung up on me. Now, ha may be the kind of person Buhari is looking for to succeed Abba Kyari as COS. They are very much alike but Gambari is more subtle and even more dangerous and will substitute the national interests for his own personal interests. I have no doubt about that. What I have written in this long piece is just some of my personal experience and encounter with him. Everything I have written here is in my memoirs 'Lest I Forget 'which he has seen and read. It is nothing new. But I think it important that the character of our top govt officials should be revealed and not covered up. We have, as a nation, paid dearly for supporting appointments to high office that are often detrimental to our nation. Enough is enough and this has to stop.

Make envy no kill you oooh

What next?

0KNM:


Ordinary CoS o

Equivalent of Secretary of State in the Us I guess.

Confirmedzombie:
Igbos are dumb founded. PMB keep shaming them.

Ndi Ara

So wha concerns IPOB with your cataclysmic failure of a government? Since 1960, this is the most useless regime; abandoning its citizens at every turn of ugly events brought by their avalanche of badluck. Don't you think that the Igbos are feeling very superior now because it's like any regime that abandons them fails like an almajiri who sat for WAEC? abeg get sense nah.

jaxxy:


Equivalent of Secretary of State in the Us I guess.

No sir. POTUS have his own CoS

0KNM:
No sir. POTUS have his own CoS

I mean in terms of role played not nomenclature.

StubbornGENIUS:
And where is BUHARI in that video? or has he relocated from aso rock

. This is familiarization tour for new CoS arround aso rock. It is conducted by presidential staff.

jaxxy:


I mean in terms of role played not nomenclature.

So what’s supposed to be Boss Gidahyelda Mustapha’s role?

ENIGMATIC2023:
Gambari is worst than Abba Kyari
Ambassador Dapo Fafowora on Prof Agboola Gambari*
I know him quite well. I was the one who in 1981 brought him to the UN at his request as a member of the Nigerian delegation. He was then a senior lecturer at the ABU. In fact, the late Prof Audu, who was then Foreign Minister actually advised me against inviting him to the UN. But he had strong academic credentials which impressed me. He had obtained his first degree in political science from the LSE, and a doctorate from Colombia University in New York. We were looking for strong delegates to the UN General Assembly and I considered him the kind of delegates we were looking for. So I invited him as one of our delegates to the UN General Assembly. He was at the UN in New York with me. I gave him and his wife my city apartment which I was not using free for 3 months plus a car. I liked him and I was not seeking any favours from him. After 3 months he returned home and sent me a note thanking me for giving him the first opportunity to visit the UN as a delegate and giving him his first experience at multilateral diplomacy. However, he sent President Shagari a secret and private note that while he was at the UN he observed that I had not been attending the meeting of Islamic states at the UN. President Shagari sent the note to Prof Audu who forwarded it to me in New York. He didn't even ask me for any comments on Gambari's secret memo as Prof Audu fully understood that Nigeria had traditionally not been attending meetings if the Islamic states as we were not then a member of the Group. Gambari asked for a private meeting with President Shagari which Prof Audu advised against. I was shocked that someone I had helped so much turned round to betray me so blatantly. I did not tell him I knew about the secret letter he had sent to the UN. When Shagari was overthrown by Buhari Gambari became Foreign Minister. When career ambassadors were being suddenly retired I was at first not on the list. But Gambari, now FM and Rafindadi, the head of the NSO who had worked under me in London, and was now head of the NSO worked together to secure my retirement. In fact, when I called him from New York to confirm from him news about my retirement he first denied it. Thereafter, he no longer took my calls. In fact, I remained at my post in New York for another 3 months during which the MFA tried to reverse the decision to retire me. I had done absolutely nothing wrong in my entire career in the diplomatic service and only got into trouble for helping a young academic who turned against me to fulfil his own personal ambition. Since then, he and I have only met twice in very difficult circumstances. First at a dinner by a mutual friend in New York several years after my retirement. He could barely look directly at me. He was clearly embarrassed. Then when Buhari won the elections in 2015 I headed a team that was set up to prepare a paper for him on our Foreign Policy. Subsequently, Alhaji Joda asked him to join the team. Last year, he suddenly called me to ask if I would kindly represent him at a public lecture he had agreed to chair. I told him I could not and that he should look for someone younger. He immediately hung up on me. Now, ha may be the kind of person Buhari is looking for to succeed Abba Kyari as COS. They are very much alike but Gambari is more subtle and even more dangerous and will substitute the national interests for his own personal interests. I have no doubt about that. What I have written in this long piece is just some of my personal experience and encounter with him. Everything I have written here is in my memoirs 'Lest I Forget 'which he has seen and read. It is nothing new. But I think it important that the character of our top govt officials should be revealed and not covered up. We have, as a nation, paid dearly for supporting appointments to high office that are often detrimental to our nation. Enough is enough and this has to stop.

Chai! Naijeriya.... at least let him settle down before the mud slinging nd smear campaigns start.

0KNM:


So what’s supposed to be Boss Gidahyelda Mustapha’s role?

PTF or anything assigned to him. The roles are played differently. Even for governors, COS have more mouth in the state than other aides.

jaxxy:


PTF or anything assigned to him. The roles are played differently. Even for governors, COS have more mouth in the state than other aides.

I don’t think a CoS should have such huge amount of power as they are just appointees of the President.

It’s an important role no doubt, but they shouldn’t as powerful as they’ve been lately in this administration

I am very sure Mike Oghiadomhe and Jones Arogbofa we’re not half as powerful as Abba Kyari was

emmabest2000:
Congratulations sir

Remember that to enter Aso Rock Villa na one thing but to come out from Aso Rock alive after your tenure na another thing , if u doubt ask Abacha
Many have gone , God is your only hope

Candid observations

Aso Rock villa is a very ugly structure

Government of the North, by the North and for the North.

See all of them in kaftan on a weekday.
Its well
New CSO = Aboki
Director of protocol = Yakubu Ahmed (Aboki)
State House perm sec = Tijani Umar (an Aboki as well)
#SayNoToNepotism
# OneNigeria_my yansh

Chief of Staff is now celebrated as the President of Nigeria because the President and VP are just arm chair observers. I guess that if it were ten years ago, Gambari may have even rejected the job or the appointment will go unnoticed. But it is almost as if a President or Prime Minister has been appointed.

9jayes:
To be since where have Buhari and Osinbajo been?


COS seems to be the one running the affairs nowadays.


Btw, I buy Btc now at 450/$, cashApp at 400/$

drop ur number

One tin about Buhari is that he never forget those people loyal to him. This man served between 1984-1985. Then again his diligence in service earn him COS today. If you like use your position to loot like Goodluck Jonathan and Dieziani prosperity will judge you.

Mallams everywhere....shio!

Benevan:









drop ur number

Check my signature

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