Abba Kyari

After the death of his chief of staff Abba Kyari in April a central figure and workaholic on policy and process in the executive another of Buhari'slong-time associates businessman and publisher Ismai'la Isa Funtua died on 20 July (AC Vol 61 No 9 Abba Kyari 1952-2020)...

Public complaints from his foes in the party of an abrasive and abrupt style of management masked more private concerns that he was too close to Buhari's then Chief of Staff Abba Kyari and more significantly to Bola Tinubu Governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007 and one of the richest men in the country with a formidable real estate portfolio in the commercial capital...

The death of President Muhammadu Buhari's chief of staff Abba Kyari the main driver of the reform has lessened its chances...

Gambari's predecessor Abba Kyari had sided with the service chiefs against Gen Monguno over matters of procurement and policy...

Kyari who died of Covid-19 in April was a high-profile advocate of reforms in agriculture oil energy and public finances (AC Vol 61 No 9 Abba Kyari 1952-2020)...

Abba Kyari filled that vacuum...

He has taken Abba Kyari's seat on the NNPC board and is said to be running meetings on behalf Buhari the substantive minister for petroleum...

His Chief of Staff Abba Kyari who died in April of complications arising from Covid-19 said it was not a question of if Nigeria changed but only of how: a process of effective and planned reform or something much more explosive (AC Vol 61 No 9 Abba Kyari 1952-2020)...

The death of Abba Kyari chief of staff to the President on 17 April of organ failure after contracting coronavirus has heightened concerns (See Obituary)...

In part that will be determined by the President who has been hit hard by the death from Covid-19 of his chief of staff Abba Kyari on 17 April...

Abba Kyari was neither an administrator nor a politician...

Already it has cut through the country's political class with the President's Chief of Staff Abba Kyari Kaduna State governor Nasir el Rufai and Bauchi governor Bala Mohammed all testing positive...

After a week in which suspected insurgents burnt dozens of civilians alive in their vehicles outside of Maiduguri two memos from the National Security Advisor retired General Babagana Monguno accused Abba Kyari Buhari's Chief of Staff of hampering the security effort meddling in procurement and interfering in military operational matters...

That band is said to include Buhari's chief of staff Abba Kyari and the former governor of Lagos State Bola Tinubu who masterminded Buhari's ascent to the presidency in 2015 and proposed that Osinbajo should be his running mate...