By Ikechukwu Amaechi
I had no personal relationship with Abba Kyari, a lawyer trained at Cambridge University in England, who amassed more power than any of his predecessors as the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari.
So, after his death last year, I reached out to a close friend of his to make sense of all that had been written and said about him.
Was he a victim of blind loyalty, as his friends claimed, or a villain, as popularly believed, who took advantage of the manifest handicaps of Buhari for narrow political gains?
His friend, a power broker in his own right, who had just written a moving tribute to him, gave an unambiguous answer. Kyari, he said, was a good man who, sadly, opted to be servile to a sadist.
If Kyari was such a positive influence, why was he unable to moderate the toxic policies of the government, I probed further.
He was likened to a man who went for a dinner with the devil, leaving his long spoon behind. A damning charge…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
