How cabal bypassed me, smuggled memos to Buhari – Gambari
Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, a former chief of staff to the late ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, has revealed how members of the president’s inner circle, popularly known as cabals, often bypassed him to secretly send memos to the President.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Inside Sources on Friday, Gambari said although Buhari had instructed that all memos be routed through him, some appointees exploited the president’s “weak point” to get their messages across informally.
“They knew his weak moment, they knew when to smuggle memos because they knew him as they interacted with him informally,” Gambari said.
Gambari served as Buhari’s chief of staff from May 2020 to May 2023 after the death of his predecessor, Abba Kyari, who was killed by COVID-19.
“When I came as chief of staff to the president, he made a statement publicly. He said all memos must go through the chief of staff before coming to him.
“Even Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, to his credit, always passed his memos through me and several ministers, but our people still got their memos to him from behind because they knew his weak point and who to use and he never stopped them; but the advantage I had was that the memos came back to me,” the diplomat said.
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