Shrewdly Yar'Adua has appointed Baba Gana Kingibe as Secretary to the Government to bridge the gaps between the presidency National Assembly civil service and other public institutions...
Shehu had wanted Atiku to be Moshood Abiola's running mate in 1993 and regarded his choice of Babagana Kingibe as something of a betrayal...
' Sources at the presidency have indicated that Obasanjo may have passed over El-Rufai Babagana Kingibe Adamu Mu'azu (Bauchi State Governor) Peter Odili (Rivers) Ahmed Makarfi (Kaduna) and other mooted favourites in favour of Umaru Musa Yar'Adua the Governor of Katsina state and brother of the late Shehu Musa Yar'Adua who served as Obasanjo's deputy in the 1976-79 military regime...
Then the two currently favoured candidates from the north are former Director of Nigeria's State Security Service Babagana Kingibe and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Mallam Nasir el-Rufai...
Pronk and AU Envoy Baba Gana Kingibe jointly condemned the attacks...
African Union Ambassador Baba Gana Kingibe (Nigeria) told the BBC it was 'utterly incomprehensible that GOS [Government of Sudan] forces...
The international change of mood shone from a furious joint statement on 7 April by African Union Ambassador Baba Gana Kingibe and his UN counterpart Jan Pronk expressing 'utter shock and disbelief' at the 'relentless day long attack on Khor Abeche by armed militia of the Miseriyya tribe...
Abiola took over the party but (backed by Yar'Adua) became a key figure in Abiola's campaign and was caretaker Chairman of the SDP when another Yar'Adua acolyte Babagana Kingibe became Abiola's running mate...
Masire had assembled an impressive team of commissioners to lead the negotiations in Addis: Senegal's Moustapha Niasse (constitutional reform); Mauritania's Ahmed Ould Abdallah (elections); Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Gambia's Bakary Dabo (development); Nigeria's General Abdulsalami Abubakar and Babagana Kingibe (military reform); Benin's Albert Téoédjrè (reconciliation)...
This would also be a victory for Nigeria's negotiators led by former Foreign and Interior minister Babagana Kingibe who would have succeeded in diverting some heat from its dispute with Cameroon over Bakassi...
