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The Chief of Staff to the President has managed to keep his head above turbulent waters, writes Sanya Onayoade Professor Ibrahim Gambari is one of the greatest diplomats that have shaped the international status of Nigeria since independence. But restricting his influence to the diplomatic circle will be a disservice to a man whose towering status straddles many spheres of life. He is simply an enigma venerated home and abroad. Away from his global shuttles as an envoy with multiple portfolios, he berthed in Aso Villa, Abuja, on May 13, last year, armed with the Presidency’s most strategic task: Chief of Staff to the President. As he marks his one year in office, the reflections since his time in the saddle will be an admixture of the pleasant and the not so pleasant. His stint has never been a stroll in the park, and may not be in the near future unless the insecurity pervading the nation is nipped. But men of steel are produced at times like this.

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