July 18, (THEWILL) — Former Chief of Staff to the late Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Gambari, has revealed that members of the former president’s cabal bypassed him and smuggled memos to the ex-president.
Gambari, a former United Nations special envoy, was Buhari’s chief of staff from May 13, 2020, to May 29, 2023, and made the disclosure on Channels Television’s ‘Inside Sources’ programme on Friday.
Highlighting how members of the cabal explore Buhari’s weak moments, Gambari said, “They knew his weak moment, they knew when to smuggle (memos) because they knew him as they interacted with him informally.
“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 the 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.”
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