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Be aware that out of the three individual President Buhari conferred with the country top national honours (1 GCFR and 2 GCON's), only one of them is alive and that is Ambassador Babagana Kingibe, the others Bashorun MKO Abiola and Chief Gani Fawehinmi are both late.

Kingibe who is a key figure in the current administration is a prominent member of President Buhari kitchen Cabinet. Infact he is being referred to in some quarters has Nigeria defacto Prime Minister.

EXCLUSIVE: Baba Gana Kingibe is Nigeria’s defacto Prime Minister

Obviously, come June 12 2018, when the purported conferment of the award will be made, Babagana Kingibe will be the ONLY individual that will step forward to receive the award of GCON, which will make him at par with the current VP Yemi Osinbajo.

Congratulation to our new VP

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EXCLUSIVE: Baba Gana Kingibe is Nigeria’s defacto Prime Minister

Even though he does not occupy any official position in the Muhammadu Buhari led administration, Nigerian Times can authoritatively reveal that Ambassador Baba Gana Kingibe, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs and one-time Secretary to the Federal Government, is the man running Nigeria from behind the scenes along withe Abba Kyari, the president’s chief of staff.

This paper learnt from sources in the highest reaches of government that even though President Buhari’s nephew, Mamman Daura, is said to wield influence and can get the president to do basically almost anything he wants, his clout ends when it comes to matters of state policy.

Here, Nigerian Times learnt is where Kingibe exerts much influence. The President, who is said to be spending less and less time in office on account of ill-health, reportedly leans on Kingibe for direction.

A source within the Presidency informed this paper that such is the President’s reliance on the former SGF that Kingibe has taken up permanent residency within the Villa. He is said to be lodged at one of the guest houses close to President Buhari’s residence.

“The President cannot do without Ambassador Kingibe these days. He relies on him for practically every matter related to the running of government. He believes that Kingibe having straddled government in various capacities as minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador to Greece and Pakistan, and SGF, is immensely experienced and can be called upon to share his rich knowledge of governance,” our source said.

The president’s faith in Kingibe, this paper confirmed, is resolute. Recently, Kingibe was head of Nigerian team, which visited the United States to seek the American government support in key areas such as security, the economy, banking sector, war on corruption and the insurgency ravaging the northeast of Nigeria.

Nigerian Times learnt that the recent visit of American Secretary of State, John Kerry, to Nigeria was undertaken partly in fulfilment of the promise made by President Barack Obama to the Kingibe team that his government would assist Nigeria in any way it can in the areas it has sought its help.

Only last month during the AU summit in Kigali, Rwanda, there was a bit of conflict over who was Nigeria’s official representative to the summit. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, was widely reported, and rightly so, to be official leader of Nigeria’s delegation to the event. He had promptly been accredited and accord the respect due him in that capacity. Organisers thought that was the end of matter when Kingibe dramatically turned up claiming to be leader of the Nigerian team to the summit.

It was an awkward moment for Nigeria but the matter was eventually resolved in favour of the Vice President. It emerged later that Kingibe was President Buhari’s preferred choice for the job.

Nigerian Times sources say the Vice President and his aides are not happy with Kingibe’s larger than life presence at the Villa and his overweening influence with President Buhari. Our source say that rather than chafe quietly over the development, the Vice President’s office is fighting back.

Nigerian Times checks revealed that it was through the VP’s office that the Emergency Powers Bill, where president Buhari is seeking sweeping powers to reflate the economy, was leaked to the media.

Sources say that stung and embarrassed by the development particularly by the negative reaction to the bill, the Presidency quickly issued a statement declaring that President Buhari was yet to see a copy of the bill.

“That denial by the Vice President’s office was instigated by Kingibe. He felt it was deliberately done to embarrass the President and he wanted them to be the ones to repair the damage,” our source said.

At the attrition war rages, President Buhari, the man on whom the expectations of Nigerians hang, is insulated from it all. Sources say as far as he is concerned, Kingibe is more than capable of delivering the goods. The snag however, a presidential source said, is that Kingibe like the President is battling some health challenge as is Abba Kyari, the President’s Chief of Staff, another individual that enjoys the utmost confidence of the president.

http://nigeriantimes.ng/news/exclusive-baba-gana-kingibe-is-nigerias-defacto-prime-minister/

I knew it will not take time before bitter anarchists do something about their troubled soul.

If you know your are miserable, you truly know.

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I knew it will not take time before bitter anarchists do something about their troubled soul.

If you know your are miserable, you truly know.

You are obviously more bittered, if not counter the post with fact. The quoted article was published August 28, 2016

Ventura1:
A minister/]EXCLUSIVE: Baba Gana Kingibe is Nigeria’s defacto Prime Minister[/url]. VP

I pray your entire tribe do not run mad before 2023 when Buhari complete his second term.

VP Osinbajo must have probably be reading the handwriting on the wall. Let see what the coming days have in stock

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I pray your entire tribe do not run mad before 2023 when Buhari complete his second term.

Don't be lazy, check my previous post and you will understand my political view and leaning.

Buhari's cluelessness is simply legendary.

Ventura1:
You are obviously more bittered, if not counter the post with fact. The quoted article was published August 28, 2016

So you mean that because there was a mix up as to who was the leader of the Nigerian delegation to a conference in 2016 that involved Kingibe as a presidential adviser on foreign affairs, that means a due and merited recognition of GCON made in 2018 then means he is being appointed as vice-president from the back door?

Are you unaware that the role of the office of VP is not defined in the constitution, and the VP only executes tasks as assigned to him by his principal, the President? So if Osinbajo went anywhere at all, it was under a presidential directive to do so.

Are you saying Kingibe should not be given his due recognition because there was a protocol mix up in 2016?

What is the relevance of that 2016 event to the present recognition of Kingibe, that is making you so elated like you have discovered the national treasure?


Whatever caused this your misery is very deep.

It is the prerogative of the president to assign any role he deems fit to his vice-president. That is how the Nigerian constitution was written without any statutory responsibilities for the vice president or deputy governor. That is how it has been since 1999 at federal and state levels.

It is also the prerogative of the president to assign roles to aides appointed by the presidency.

All of your anarchy baiting is irrelevant to the working relationship the president has with his vice.

Waiting concern me

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So you mean that because there was a mix up as to who was the leader of the Nigerian delegate to a conference in 2016 that involved Kingibe as a presidential adviser on foreign affairs, that means a due and merited recognition of GCON made in 2018 then means he is being appointed as vice-president from the back door?

Are you unaware that the role of the office of VP is not defined in the constitution, and the VP only executes tasks as assigned to him by his principal, the President?

Are you saying Kingibe should not be given his due recognition because there was a protocol mix up n 2016?

What is the relevance of that 2016 event to the present recognition, that is making you so elated like you have discovered the national treasure?


Whatever caused this your misery is very deep.

Can you tell me the post Kingibe is holding in PMB administration to have been accorded such recognition, to the extent he's having protocol mix up with the VP?

Osinbanjo is a mere commissioner anyway

Ventura1:
Can you tell me the post Kingibe is holding in PMB administration to have been accorded such recognition, to the extent he's having protocol mix up with the VP?

I am telling you of his due recognition as victorious running mate in a presidential election, resulting in the GCON award for which you created this thread.

Stop beating about the bush.

He will be awarded his GCON. He will be given whatever assignments and appointments this government or any other requires of him. Osinbajo as vice-president will continue to execute only tasks that his principal, the President, requires of him.

If you had any idea how the Presidential system of government works, you wouldn't have wasted your time with all this aimless conspiracy theory. Even if you were ignorant of the Presidential level, are you also stark ignorant of how it exist at the state level? Are you ignorant that the vice or deputy is only as useful and significant as the principal has need for him/her. A principal that has many aides and appointees that can be assigned the same tasks that can also be assigned to the vice/deputy. How many years of presidential democracy do you need to experience to understand the relationship between the principal and his vice/deputy?

The vice's/deputy's only statutary role is to succeed the principal when required, as observed in how the newspaper reading vice-president Jonathan in a Yar'Adua government that was controlled by his kitchen cabinet and aides, was able to succeed him after his demise without any contest, while the same aides and kitchen cabinet that had no regard for him now had to submit their loyalty and reverence.


Now continue to nurse your misery.

The truth is that the office of Vice President and Deputy Governors (and other Deputies) are as important as what the Principal want them to be.

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I am telling you of his due recognition as victorious running mate in a presidential election, resulting in the GCON award for which you created this thread.

Stop beating about the bush.

He will be awarded his GCON. He will be given whatever assignments and appointments this government or any other requires of him. Osinbajo as vice-president will continue to execute only tasks that his principal, the President, requires of him.

If you had any idea how the Presidential system of government works, you wouldn't have wasted your time with all this aimless conspiracy theory. Even if you were ignorant of the Presidential level, are you also stark ignorant of how it exist at the state level? Are you ignorant that the vice or deputy is only as useful and significant as the principal has need for him/her. A principal that has many aides and appointees that can be assigned the same tasks that can also be assigned to the vice/deputy. How many years of presidential democracy do you need to experience to understand the relationship between the principal and his vice/deputy?


Now continue to nurse your misery.

In essence Kingibe with no specific portfolio could be assign more vital roles and responsibilities than VP Osinbajo. PELE (EOD)

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I knew it will not take time before bitter anarchists do something about their troubled soul.

If you know your are miserable, you truly know.

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Ventura1:
In essence Kingibe with no specific portfolio could be assign more vital roles and responsibilities than VP Osinbajo. PELE (EOD)

Yes!

Because that is how the presidential system is even in America that designed it.

So stop fretting on behalf of Osinbajo who knows the law and knows his limitations as determined by the law that empowers only the principal. He does not need your sorry.

The aides of a president are more powerful than the vice. It is not an anomaly.