Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, Seasoned Diplomat Appointed As New Chief Of Staff To President Buhari

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, a diplomat and seasoned scholar has been appointed the new Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari.

He replaced Mallam Abba Kyari, who died last month after protracted infection of COVID-19 and is expected to resume on Wednesday

Gambari, who was Buhari’s, foreign Minister and confidant as military Head of late in the 1980s met with the President at about 8am on Tuesday at the State House, Abuja.

Professor Gambari is a seasoned scholar and a Diplomat per excellence with an illustrious career, spanning over the academia, government and international diplomacy.

He worked in different capacities under three successive United Nations Secretaries-General of the United Nations in New York.

Until his retirement from meritorious service to humanity in December 2012, he served the United Nations both as the Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs and Joint Special Representative of the UN/AU Hybrid Mission in Darfur, the Sudan.

Professor Gambari holds the National Honors of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Republic of South Africa (CFR and OCORT) respectively.

While serving as the UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, he established a Mediation Support Unit in 2006.

He also served as the UN Special Representative in Angola and Myanmar as well as Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on Africa, with special responsibilities for the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) which mid-wife the establishment of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM).