Nigeria, Feb. 21 -- Professor Ibrahim Gambari, President Muhammadu Buhari's Chief of Staff, international relations guru and bureaucrat does not think we should wait for historians to do the assessment of the Buhari administration in the international arena given limitations of the focus of many of them. "Now is the time to do it," he insists.
We agree with many of the historians that the pursuit of closer foreign economic relations is no longer an option and the important need for an upward trajectory in bilateral relationship, first in our own neighbourhood and then in the world are key. This is what necessitated a whirlwind of visits around the world in the President's First Term.
Although these trips themselves became objects of contr...