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Breaking: Buhari’s New Chief of Staff,Gambari To Be Unveiled At FEC Meeting…Resumes Today
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, who has been appointed the new Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, replacing Mallam Abba Kyari, who died last month of COVID-19 will be unveiled at the Federal Executive Council meeting today,City News can authoritatively reveal.
We gathered that Gambari, who was Buhari’s Foreign minister and confidant as military Head of State in 1984, had already met with the president at the State House in Abuja.
The new Chief of Staff, presidential sources said yesterday, would be unveiled today during the Federal Executive Council meeting.
Gambari, as foreign minister, played a key role in quelling the diplomatic uproar generated by the failed attempt to forcefully remove the former Minister of Transport, Mallam Umaru Dikko, from the United Kingdom by the Buhari military government in 1984.
A scholar and seasoned diplomat, the new principal aide to the president was once Nigeria’s United Nations Permanent Representative and was later appointed by former United Nations Secretary -General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, and the chairperson of the African Union Commission, as Joint African Union-United Nations Special Representative for Darfur in 2010.
He also served as Special Adviser on the International Compact with Iraq and Other Issues for the UN Secretary-General. Prior to that, he served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for the Department of Political Affairs (DPA).
The new chief of staff, an Ilorin prince, was born on November 24, 1944.
His brother, Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, was the first to congratulate him yesterday even as official announcement was awaited.
Sources say he would resume work as the President’s Chief of Staff immediately.
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