Gambari seeks support for Buhari govt, applauds Gov. AbdulRazaq, others
By SAKA Laaro, Ilorin
Chief of Staff to the President, Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari on Sunday urged Nigerians to give maximum support to the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, saying, “his success is our success.”
Professor Gambari who came to his ancestral home, Ilorin, for the first time after his appointment as Chief of Staff to the President made the call while speaking with journalists in Ilorin, Kwara State.
He said, “This period is an opportunity to reflect on the state of our country and to give maximum support to our president, Muhammadu Buhari, because his success is our success and by the grace of God with all the programmes and projects he has embarked upon, in economic, political and social affairs will materialize for the betterment of our people, so at the end of his tenure, Nigeria will be more united, more peaceful and more prosperous.”
Professor Gambari was received at the Ilorin International Airport by the high powered government officials led by the deputy Governor, Mr. Kayode Alabi, Senators representing Kwara Central and North, Ibrahim Oloriegbe and Sadiq Umar, Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Yakubu Danladi Salihu, Special Advisers on Political Matters, Abdullateef Alakawa, other top Governor’s appointees and party chieftains.
Professor Gambari, who could not hold his felicity over the warm reception bestowed him by the state government, applauded Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, saying, “I am grateful to Almighty Allah for giving me life and health to be able to come back to the city of my birth as from where all my trajectory occurred, and for the State Government for this heroic reception.”
“I thank His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, Deputy, distinguished Senators and all the senior government officials who have been too gracious in welcoming me and of course, Mai Martaba, the Royal Highness, Emir of Ilorin and all members of the community for the warm reception.”
