Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari,
has been appointed the new Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu
Buhari.

With his appointment, he replaces Mallam Abba Kyari, who died last
month of COVID-19.

Gambari, who was Buhari’s Foreign Minister and confidant as military
Head of State in the 1980s, met with the President at about eight
o’clock in the morning on Tuesday at the State House, Abuja.
The new Chief of Staff will resume work at the Presidential Villa on Wednesday.

A scholar and seasoned diplomat, Gambari served as minister of
External Affairs between 1984 and 1985.
He was appointed by former United Nations Secretary Ban Ki-moon and
the chairperson of the African Union Commission as Joint African
Union-United Nations Special Representative for Darfur in 2010.
He also served as Special Adviser on the International Compact with
Iraq and Other Issues for the UN Secretary General.

Prior to that, he served as Under-Secretary Generay of the United
Nation for the Department of Political Affairs, DPA.
The new chief of Staff, an Ilorin prince, was born on November 24th, 1944.

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