Why buari appointed Gambari as chief of staff

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By Terhemba Daka, Adamu Abuh, John Akubo (Abuja,) Seye Olumide, Gbenga Salau (Lagos), Abiodun Fagbemi (Ilorin), Rotimi Agboluaje (Ibadan), Ibrahim Obansa (Lokoja), Njadvara Musa (Maiduguri), Saxone Akhaine (Kaduna) and Charles Ogugbuaja (Owerri)

14 May 2020   |   4:30 am

Two old boys of Kings College Lagos reunite at the Presidential Villa: National Security Adviser to the President, General Babagana Mongono (left) and new Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari after a closed- door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, Abuja…yesterday. PHOTO: PHILIP OJISUA

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The newly appointed Chief of Staff to the President (CoS), Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, yesterday declared he was picked for the job because President Muhammadu Buhari needs his competence and loyalty to succeed.

Asked what Nigerians should expect from him as Chief of Staff, Gambari told reporters at the Presidential Villa in Abuja: “We have not started. I’ll have to find out. I don’t report directly to the nation, I report to the president.”

He said he would be offering his “loyalty, competence and support” to the president, adding that as the chief of staff, his guiding principle would be “to serve the president to the best of my ability.”