Ibrahim Babangida Quotes

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• Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the…
• A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a…
• The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands…
• The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books…
• There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming…
• Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of…
• Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
• There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built…
• We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
• At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people…
• But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and…
• The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an…
• To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians…
• Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
• Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
• Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character…
• If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations…
• Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to…
• I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their…
• It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

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