Gambari Betrayed Me, He Destroyed My Career To Advance His Own – Amb. Dapo A former diplomat and ambassador, Dapo Fafowora, has described in details how President Buhari’s new Chief of Staff, Ibrahim Gambari betrayed him and paid him back with evil after he had helped him rise in his career. His essay is reproduced below, unedited: ___ I know Gambari quite well. I was the one who in 1981, brought him to the United Nations (UN) at his request as a member of the Nigerian delegation. He was then a senior lecturer at the ABU (Ahmadu Bello University). In fact, the late Prof Audu, who was then Foreign Minister actually advised me against inviting him to the UN. But he had strong academic credentials which impressed me. He had obtained his first degree in political science from the LSE, and a doctorate from Colombia University in New York. We were looking for strong delegates to the UN General Assembly and I considered him the kind of delegate we were looking for. So I invited him as one of ...
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