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Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by slowice(m): 7:28am On May 14, 2020
So is Nigeria now a member of Islamic states?
There re many things we don't all understand in this country and why does the North want Nigeria to be an Islamic state by all means?
Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by Bizibi(m): 8:11am On May 14, 2020
AlhajaChinyere:


Ignorance!!!!

Rather Nigeria's problems overwhelmed the man and his team.

Nigeria,s budget for the year 2020 is only $30 Billion.

For 200m people!!!!!!! That means every man, woman and child in the country are sleeping 24 hours a day. We are not even poor, we are TOTALLY DEAD and WRETCHED!
hmmm....be giving that old man excuses, Forget all this grammar you are speaking.so you are telling me the 11trn naira they borrowed was a waste abi. Infact I am tired of talking about his government because nothing will happen till the next election and I know people like you will still come out and give excuses for failure.
Anyway na una know...... right now I am thinking of moving any money I make outside this country and it is better I survive in another nation economy than the one under a confused government with no policy.

Good luck to you and your excuses.
Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by Zico5(m): 8:21am On May 14, 2020
Ademat7:
No children pays for any sin provided u hv strong network
You are a kid
Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by AlhajaChinyere: 8:34am On May 14, 2020
Bizibi:
hmmm....be giving that old man excuses, Forget all this grammar you are speaking.so you are telling me the 11trn naira they borrowed was a waste abi. Infact I am tired of talking about his government because nothing will happen till the next election and I know people like you will still come out and give excuses for failure.
Anyway na una know...... right now I am thinking of moving any money I make outside this country and it is better I survive in another nation economy than the one under a confused government with no policy.

Good luck to you and your excuses.

Ok. Don't worry Nigeria was a wealthy successful industrialised country before Buhari came and spoiled it.

Happy now?

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Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by Bizibi(m): 8:43am On May 14, 2020
AlhajaChinyere:


Ok. Don't worry Nigeria was a wealthy successful industrialised country before Buhari came and spoiled it.

Happy now?
abeg good luck to you and your excuses. We will argue and the president will still continue in his incompetence,just save yourself the stress to discuss about them.

The year has gone already,he has only a year to meet up and we all know it is impossible.
Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by Ademat7(m): 9:13am On May 14, 2020
Zico5:

You are a kid
OK sir. Religion has enslaved ur mind, Abacha family is a case study
Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by Lovelyn451(f): 9:34am On May 14, 2020
Simbrixton:
gambari is fulani
whats Fulani about him? Is it the tribal marks or that dirty dark complexion? Which Fulani man looks like that? Can he speak fulfude? Abegi...
Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by femixville(m): 9:40am On May 14, 2020
Are there no young minds, who are a true Nigerian.. Must we always parade elders in govt..
Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by Eteka1(m): 9:45am On May 14, 2020
ContractKiller:
Buhari's New Chief Of Staff Is Gambari Is More Subtle And Even More Dangerous Than Late Abba Kyari

By Ambassador Dapo Fafowora

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.

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 delegate 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, 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.


http://saharareporters.com/2020/05/13/buharis-new-chief-staff-gambari-more-subtle-and-even-more-dangerous-late-abba-kyari
So what?
Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by zomby(m): 9:59am On May 14, 2020
At this point, I’m not sure why anyone is expecting anything pleasant from this clueless/ lost administration...
We don’t have a president...It is that simple.
Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by ehinmowo: 10:26am On May 14, 2020
efighter:
Anyone that says Abba Kyari is dangerous should not be taken serious. Such an idiot is a miscreant nincompoop.

STFU! Abba Kyari was a disgrace to nationhood. The idiot was power drunk. Imagine the mumu made ministry of Agriculture to be procuring medical equipment because he had issue with the formal minister of health. You should have used those adjectives on qualify yourself.
Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by UNUKHASO: 10:46am On May 14, 2020
YOU GOT RETIRED FOR NOT ATTENDING THE MEETING, KAI THIS YOUR RELIGION. YOU DON'T WANT TO DIE BUT MUST KILL TO MAKE HEAVEN. SEVEN VIRGIN WAITING FOR YOU AND YOU HAVE ONLY ONE DICK
Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by UNUKHASO: 10:47am On May 14, 2020
YOU GOT RETIRED FOR NOT ATTENDING THE MEETING, KAI THIS YOUR RELIGION. YOU DON'T WANT TO DIE BUT MUST KILL TO MAKE HEAVEN. SEVEN VIRGIN WAITING FOR YOU AND YOU HAVE ONLY ONE DICK.ANOTHER PROBLEM WHO TAKE IT FIRST
Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by Beze992(f): 10:56am On May 14, 2020
omhor:
Him don do you jamba, eeyah sorry, but Ilorin and jamba be like 5 and 6, abi I lie.. grin


Funny enough you're not
Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by Sharatan(m): 11:08am On May 14, 2020
ContractKiller:
Buhari's New Chief Of Staff Is Gambari Is More Subtle And Even More Dangerous Than Late Abba Kyari

By Ambassador Dapo Fafowora

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.

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 delegate 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, 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.


http://saharareporters.com/2020/05/13/buharis-new-chief-staff-gambari-more-subtle-and-even-more-dangerous-late-abba-kyari






Seeing this face makes me remember those old Yoruba movies where charcoal is used as a make-up tool for actors and actresses with roles as very old people

Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by ledaman: 11:56am On May 14, 2020
Noted, can we move on?
Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by PeterUdeme: 1:25pm On May 14, 2020
justy15:
That's Afonja's area of specialty; an average Yoruba man Christian or Muslim is a betrayal. Nevertheless, there is nothing new for us in Nigeria. Let's see how it goes.

An average Igbo man is a criminal.
Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by Nobody: 2:21pm On May 14, 2020
efighter:
Anyone that says Abba Kyari is dangerous should not be taken serious. Such an idiot is a miscreant nincompoop.

ABBA kyari is a fulani murderer
Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by emmie1: 5:21pm On May 14, 2020
Don't allow your children play out this critical period. Enrol dem today

Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by Kdon2: 7:17pm On May 14, 2020
dyfaze:


Everybody has a past bro.. Pls can you explain how downfall of a fortunate man will make you great. .?.

He is from ilorin and the only thing they think of is how to islamise.
Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by Kdon2: 7:19pm On May 14, 2020
Lovelyn451:
whats Fulani about him? Is it the tribal marks or that dirty dark complexion? Which Fulani man looks like that? Can he speak fulfude? Abegi...

He is a fulani man and a believer in islamization plan thats why buhari chose him
Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by Lovelyn451(f): 7:23pm On May 14, 2020
Kdon2:


He is a fulani man and a believer in islamization plan thats why buhari chose him
Every Muslim believes in islamisation plan, so what's Fulani abt him?
Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by Kdon2: 7:29pm On May 14, 2020
Lovelyn451:
Every Muslim believes in islamisation plan, so what's Fulani abt him?

He is fron ilorin, he is not yoruba no doubt neither is he nupe nor baruba.
Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by Lovelyn451(f): 7:33pm On May 14, 2020
Kdon2:


He is fron ilorin, he is not yoruba no doubt neither is he nupe nor baruba.
are you Yoruba?
Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by Kdon2: 7:35pm On May 14, 2020
Lovelyn451:
are you Yoruba?

I m not the topic here please.
Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by TheCork(m): 10:19am On May 15, 2020
Beze992:



Funny enough you're not

Hey u again. Ok please I will buy u nice cow if u let me kiss, romanse an hug u. .or usually pay u 700 naira cash. Please was your number please? smiley
Re: Dapo Fafowora: "COS Ibrahim Gambari Is Even More Dangerous Than Kyari" by kayusely70(m): 4:13pm On May 17, 2020
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