Aso Rock’s Bombshell: Gambari Reveals How Buhari’s Cabal Exploited His Weak Moments and Their Secret Tactics

Ibrahim Gambari, former Chief of Staff to the late President Muhammadu Buhari, has confirmed the existence of a clandestine group within Late President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration—referred to as a “cabal”—that operated independently of formal channels.

BIGPEN NIGERIA (https://bigpenngr.com) reports Gambari in a startling revelation on Channels Television’s ‘Inside Sources, disclosed that the “Cabal” was aware of Buhari’s vulnerabilities and often bypassed him by smuggling memos directly to the president, undermining official procedures.

Gambari explained that during his tenure, Buhari insisted all memos pass through his Chief of Staff, a protocol that was sometimes circumvented by the cabal using informal channels.

Despite measures to streamline communication, Gambari who was Chief ot Staff from May 13, 2020, to May 29, 2023, acknowledged that “members of the cabal knew his (Buhari’s) weak moments,” and exploited this knowledge to influence decisions behind the scenes.

“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 minister,s 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,” Gambari shared.

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The former UN envoy’s revelations shed light on internal power struggles and the opaque nature of Nigerian political decision-making processes during the Buhari’s government, raising questions about whether the president was actually incharge or figurehead.