I Won’t Report Directly To Nigeria, I’ll Report Directly To Buhari – Prof. Gambari

Newly announced Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Professor Ibrahim Gambari has come out to say that he will definitely be loyal to his boss.

Prof. Ibrahim Gambari recently came out to say that he is ready to serve Buhari to the best of his abilities once he resumes.

According to him, Buhari needs his loyalty, competence, and support and he is not ready to let him down after his appointment.

He added that he was not appointed to report directly to the nation, but directly to Buhari.

His words, “I think he needs my loyalty, competence and support, my guiding principle would be to serve the president to the best of my ability.”

“I have not started, so I will find out and maybe… I don’t report directly to the nation, I report directly to the president.”

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Muhammadu Buhari GCFR (born 17 December 1942) is a Nigerian politician currently serving as the President of Nigeria, in office since 2015. He is a retired major general in the Nigerian Army and previously served as the nation’s head of state from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985, after taking power in a military coup d’état. The term Buharism is ascribed to the Buhari military government.

He unsuccessfully ran for the office of president of Nigeria in the 2003, 2007, and 2011 general elections. In December 2014, he emerged as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the March 2015 general elections. Buhari won the election, defeating the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. This marked the first time in the history of Nigeria that an incumbent president lost to an opposition candidate in a general election. He was sworn in on 29 May 2015. In February 2019, Buhari was re-elected President, defeating his closest rival Atiku Abubakar by over 3 million votes.

Buhari has stated that he takes responsibility for anything over which he presided during his military rule, and that he cannot change the past. He has described himself as a “converted democrat”.

Muhammadu Buhari was born to a Fulani family on 17 December 1942, in Daura, Katsina State, to his father Hardo Adamu, a Fulani chief, and mother Zulaihat. He is the twenty-third child of his father. Buhari was raised by his mother, after his father died when he was about four years old.