Politicians From Nigeria

"I thank God for the privilege to serve our President, Goodluck Jonathan as well as distinguished Senators and honourable members who showed me great solidarity every step of the way."

"I began to think like an advocate from an early age looking back, I have always been drawn to helping the underdog or rooting for them in stories that I read."

"I realized that if something wasn’t done about cleaning up the soil and rivers, cleaning up the oil spills being my motivation for desiring to study Chemical engineering."

"I learned that it was better to focus upon serving others than dwell upon my own life’s issues."

"They believed that service was what each human owed other humans. I joined Red Cross as a pre-teen because I wanted to ease the suffering of others and when I was in college, I continued to volunteer to shelters and work as a mentor to young children."

"We needs to focus on educational programs that helps graduates develop skills."

"“I had made up my mind that I wanted to be somebody who’s going to clean up the water and this pushed me to research. I was 12 or 13 years old at the time. When I did research in the library, I found out that the people who engaged in solving problems by systems were engineers, particularly chemical engineers. So I decided to become a chemical engineer.”"

"On when Nigeria will be ripe for female Presidency, it’s possible for this 2023. Why not? Because all the people that have become the President were supported by people. If the players and kingmakers decided that a woman should become the next President, then that is it."

"How can you be talk about a population with its 55 per cent made up of females yet there is no single woman on the decision making table in the country."

"I urge Nigerians to remain peaceful, united, and law-abiding as we work together in the hope of a better nation that we all yearn for"

"It is instructive to state that these are the essentials for a united, stable, peaceful, secure, and economically prosperous nation that we all desire."

"As the nation marks this year’s June 12 Democracy Day, it is imperative that Nigerians, the leaders and the led alike, imbibe the culture and democratic tenets of equity, justice, fairness to all, mutual respect, tolerance, adherence to Rule of Law and respect for the Will of the people."

"The Labour Party is not a southern people’s agenda, it is an expression of hope for people that felt that they have been left out, we have campaigned across the local government and indeed the teeming masses in all the local government have felt that they have been left out."

"If a woman can train a man and he becomes the president, why can’t the woman herself become the President, Governor, or Speaker? So not only are women ready, we are capable to lead in all ramifications."

"I don’t think it is a matter of control rather a matter of working together as a team to move Lagos State forward, I believe that as a legal practitioner who has worked with a lot of men and has been able to head my own legal which is doing very well, I have the capacity to lead the House."

""Women appearance going beyond the 30 percent appointments the Beijing Declaration provides (3 May 2015)"

"The society should accommodate the needs of the less privileged. Our laws should look at the issues and balance them."

"...And their focus begins to shift from things that don’t have meaning in their lives. We should focus on things that will make our female children to excel."

"We have so much to gain. Any position of authority you put a woman, she tries to put in extra effort to ensure she does not disappoint. She knows that all eyes are on her."

"A night with hunger, I believe, is far better than four years of pains and struggle."

"We must begin to realise that every strata of the society counts, we must listen and accommodate all views, whether they are poor, whether they are Igbos, Hausas, whether they are Muslims or Christians."

"It is important to restate that the traditional institution of Kingship in our society, regardless of the advent of modernism, remains a rallying point for the generality of our people."

"It is impossible to sell an item and still dictate to the buyer how to use it. Once the vote is purchased and sold, you cannot ask how they use what you have sold."

"It is a case of a thief who stole the king’s trumpet (Kakaki), where will he blow it?"

"Every politician wants good things; that is why many aspirants are jostling for few posts."

"I want to believe those who escaped can only run but cannot hide."

"I have a dream not only for the North but for the entire nation. I have a dream that Nigeria will be truly united one day. I have a dream that Nigeria will have a buoyant, a strong economy. I have a dream that Nigeria will have the political cloud that will enable her to lead rest of the Africa and the blacks all over the world. I have a dream that Nigerians will come to regard one another as their brothers keepers. I have a dream that Nigeria will take her proper place in the committee of nations and will be one of the leading nations of the world. I have that dream, God's willing.. And all these ugliest things that are happening today will come to an end. Only God has no beginning nor end. Everything that you see good or bad has a beginning and it will have an end. By the grace of God we will see the end of all the crisis in Nigeria. By the grace of God we will come to know peace and stability in Nigeria. By the grace of God we will be our brothers keepers. Unfortunately today it is not so, and that is why I'm worried and that is why we are working for it.. Today Nigeria is not what it was. Nigeria was a decent country, morally sound, yes. But today, even the institutions of public is breaking down today. Respect for elders and constituted authority could used to be the cardinal principle in our society is now in it's lowest aim. Honesty where it does not pay has become meaningless. In short, there is meaninglessness in philosophy, insecurity in politics, chaos in politics, immoralities in society, corruption in economy, frustration in art, lack of creativity in literature."

"I think, we ought to pray for the government and we ought to exercise patience. Let there be constructive criticism. Nigeria is a big country, mark you and it has the potentiality of leading Africa."

"The purpose of history is to know the past in order to adjust the Present and plan for the future."

"Mr President; I see under you Nigeria realising her dreams because; I have a dream that Nigeria will one day be truly united; I have a dream that Nigeria will build a sound economy; I have a dream that Nigeria will have the political cloud that will enable her to lead rest of the Africa and the blacks all over the world; I have a dream that Nigeria will take her proper place in the committee of nations.."

"The concept of loyalty is a very strange one. My prayer is, may our loyalty never be tested.”"

"Local government autonomy unrealistic, says Fashola"

"I think the debate we must have is whether we really want autonomous local government. As it stands today, it is unrealistic to expect autonomy for local governments created by the constitution. They were not meant to be autonomous"

"Democracy does not guarantee that the leader or those leaders will deliver or indeed are able to deliver on what we want."

"I have played my role but people can decide whether it is quiet or not"

"The health of the private sector in any economy is a fair measure of how prosperous and democratic that economy is."

"The more transport infrastructure we provide the more efficient the economy becomes, resulting in more business opportunities."

"The quality and quantum of potential investors in Africa is huge."

"The Diaspora in the UK is particularly important because this is the largest diaspora community in the world. So really if you are talking to hundreds of thousands of Nigerians for anyone with any sense at all it’s a very important community to address. So it’s representative, it’s the way to go. The Diaspora here is also very active at home,"

"We are in a democracy and there is a process by which things can be done and that process is the one where you bring forward amendments to the National Assembly and they will do whatever is considered useful in the circumstance."

"Economic growth is not sustainable without nation-building and, even of greater importance, state building."

"Many of the ethnic and other parochial tensions that have tended to create insecurity and outright conflict, time and time again, are largely as a result of failure to deliberately undertake nation-building efforts."

"Africa cannot afford to underestimate the power of technology to fast-track the continent's rise. Emerging technologies have played extraordinary roles in every aspect of the continent's most touted successes."

"Africa Rising is as much about improving standards of governance as it is about an increasingly confident youths and civil society. It is also about businessmen and women who are stepping beyond national borders and going global."

"It will be wrong of us to approach our grievances by threatening to disobey the laws or by threatening the integrity of our nation."

"As we move to diversify our economy, we are particularly aware that we need oil to get out of oil."

"We are committed to a continuous engagement with our people to explain government policies, receive advice and criticism."

"Nigeria's unity is one for which enough blood has been spilled and many hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost. Many have paid for the unity of this country with their lives, and it will be wrong of us, as men and women of goodwill in this generation, to toy with those sacrifices that have been made."

"It is the resolve of the government that none will be allowed to get away with making speeches that can cause sedition or that can cause violence, especially because when we make these kinds of pronouncement and do things that can cause violence or destruction of lives and property, we are no longer in control."

"We in Africa must prepare our economies in that direction that attracts such huge and qualitative investments. It is for us to push, and we must push."