Ibrahim Babangida

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of…

— Ibrahim Babangida

Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.

— Ibrahim Babangida

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy…

— Ibrahim Babangida

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

— Ibrahim Babangida

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity…

— Ibrahim Babangida

The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty…

— Ibrahim Babangida

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

— Ibrahim Babangida

I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn…

— Ibrahim Babangida

Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were…

— Ibrahim Babangida

At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority…

— Ibrahim Babangida

Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.

— Ibrahim Babangida

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free…

— Ibrahim Babangida

The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

— Ibrahim Babangida

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his…

— Ibrahim Babangida

There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the…

— Ibrahim Babangida

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the…

— Ibrahim Babangida

Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy…

— Ibrahim Babangida

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

— Ibrahim Babangida

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch,…

— Ibrahim Babangida

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

— Ibrahim Babangida

For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages…

— Ibrahim Babangida

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which…

— Ibrahim Babangida

Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to…

— Ibrahim Babangida

There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian…

— Ibrahim Babangida

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to…

— Ibrahim Babangida