Former diplomat, Dapo Fafowora, has made damning comments circulating on the social media of most universities'groups about President Muhammadu Buhari officially-named Chief of Staff, Professor Ibrahim Gambari.

79 years old Fafowora was Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations from 1981 to 1984.
He made his comments as soon as speculations of Gambari’s appointment hit the public space and was confirmed by his nephew, the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Zulu Gambari.

Read his comments:
“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 of 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 snd that he should look for someone younger. He immediately hung up on me.

“Now, he 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.”

Dapo Fafowora
Former Nigeria Diplomat.

ALL THESE OLD MEN ARE ALL USELESS BOTH THE COMPLAINER AND ALL.THEY DESTROYED NIGERIA AND REFUSED TO LEAVE,THEY ARE ALL USELESS OLD MEN,THEY ARE WORTH NOTHING TO NIGERIAN YOUTHS,THEY HAVE ALL FAILED.THEY ARE FAILED MEN

This is serious sha

And when we thought we've seen it all here we go again?

Mehn....E be like say truly dem don use naija pant do yahoo o

Fellow Nigerians, we needs to urgently come together save ourselves from the cycle of recycled vampire 'geriatrics' sucking life and development outta this country.

Politicians are all traitors.

Buhari need to see this.
Oh! there is nothing he can do.

This one strongooo hope they won't play another one on the VP.

Nigerians don sell dog go buy monkey, no be same tail bearing creature Una buy?

Na naija we dey, everybody dey fight for hin pocket.

The youths of this Great Nation should stop tiktoking and grab the bull by the horn. If we dont do something, they'll countinue to destroy our motherland.

.... PICTURE EVIDENCE or I donblivit

There is no perfect man sir. Doubt if you didn’t hurt anyone too.
This is not the time for this....we all know you privileged guys failed us and messed up the opportunity to shape Nigeria up. You guys just refused to do right things.

babasolution:
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you right infact very right. The man complaining already got his PhD at 31 and became an ambassador at 39/40. Look at youths today at 40 many of them still carrying their CVS all over the place with no jobs. Useless men

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Vision2329:

“Now, he 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.

Dapo Fafowora
Former Nigeria Diplomat.

I was about to say that maybe he was hired to betray us more to the globalist when I read this part.

Gambari you will fail.
God has Nigeria at heart because of His children. You can not do anything outside His will in JESUS name, amen!.

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

In few weeks we will know

Let the sleeping dog lies.

A very sneaky character he is

This man should STFU! If he had been appointed as the CoS, he would have accepted without thinking twice.
Besides, in politics, there is neither a permanent friend nor a permanent enemy, ONLY permanent interests.
Tomorrow, he might end up retracting his accusations, just like how OBJ said he will never forgive AA in his book BUT end up endorsing him as a presidential candidate in the 2019 elections.

Maybe that's the exact character needed to serve as the CoS.

He who is without sin should cast the first stone.
We all have one way or another fell short of someone's expectation.

This Fafowora has an unforgiving heart. Haba , an incident of how many donkey years ago! You could have confronted him with your facts there and then but no, you had to wait till almost 40 years later to dent his image when he got into a limelight. I fear people o

babasolution:
ALL THESE OLD MEN ARE ALL USELESS BOTH THE COMPLAINER AND ALL.THEY DESTROYED NIGERIA AND REFUSED TO LEAVE,THEY ARE ALL USELESS OLD MEN,THEY ARE WORTH NOTHING TO NIGERIAN YOUTHS,THEY HAVE ALL FAILED.THEY ARE FAILED MEN

Bros you sound so pained, have you had an encounter with this man before? Even though his write up are just personal encounter, he is only giving us an antecedent of the man that is expected to work so closely with the Nigeria president. If the things he said about prof Gambari are true, then we have another Kyari in Aso rock again.

schoolmaster:


Bros you sound so pained, have you had an encounter with this man before? Even though his write up are just personal encounter, he is only giving us an antecedent of the man that is expected to work so closely with the Nigeria president. If the things he said about prof Gambari are true, then we have another Kyari in Aso rock again.

THEY ARE ALL THE SAME,BOTH THE ACCUSER AND THE ACCUSED

skylarr:
This Fafowora has an unforgiving heart. Haba , an incident of how many donkey years ago! You could have confronted him with your facts there and then but no, you had to wait till almost 40 years later to dent his image when he got into a limelight. I fear people o

So if I understand you well,he is supposed to have good tots of a person he helped push his career forward who then went behind his back and tried to get him into trouble with the then president of Nigeria,and after becoming minister had him removed or basically truncated his diplomatic career??
Becos him be Jesus abi...

So, gambari na Islamist.
Islam first, and not naija first type.
Cai.

Nonsense. I'm still trying to figure out his crime against Nigeria. The ladder to the top is filled with so many broken relationships and backstabbing. It is business not personal.

What I'm really perplexed about is the rising number of bastard youths in this country today. We don't need old men in power anymore, the next generation of leaders is long overdue.

Imagine Buhari and Gambari who ruled in 1984, still at the helm of affairs today. The American and Chinese equivalent are dead already

Vision2329:
Former diplomat, Dapo Fafowora, has made damning comments circulating on the social media of most universities'groups about President Muhammadu Buhari officially-named Chief of Staff, Professor Ibrahim Gambari.

79 years old Fafowora was Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations from 1981 to 1984.
He made his comments as soon as speculations of Gambari’s appointment hit the public space and was confirmed by his nephew, the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Zulu Gambari.

Read his comments:
“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 of 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 snd that he should look for someone younger. He immediately hung up on me.

“Now, he 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.”

Dapo Fafowora
Former Nigeria Diplomat.

Ffk is no doubt very right about gambari's appointment.