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Eghosa Osaghae
14 quotes
“The magic of federalism lies in the determination to make it work.”
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“We need to get away from the idea that federalism is just about the constitution.”
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“There is no country else in the world that is exactly like Nigeria.”
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“We cannot simply borrow the federal systems of other countries and expect them to work here.”
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“We need to develop a federal political culture of accommodation, resilience, tolerance and win-win for everyone.”
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“Two years on, we are not close to what the party promised to achieve in its campaign.”
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Recorded in: In a 2017 interview with The Guardian, Osaghae was assessing the performance of the All Progressives Congress-led federal government two years after it came to power in 2015.
“The states are mostly dysfunctional and have failed to deliver dividends of democracy.”
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“If the states were working these evaluations, appraisals would be fairer.”
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“If we don't de-colonise our right to autonomy and self-determination, Nigeria will never develop.”
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“Before our contact with Europe, Africa had its own self determined part of development and that is the trajectory African society pursued, but the story changed as soon as Africa started to have contact with Europe.”
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“Development is absolute security of human beings and a right of individuals.”
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“The NIIA is a research think tank.”
Eghosa Osaghae first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a 2021 interview with THISDAY, Osaghae was explaining the institutional role of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs and how its research should serve Nigeria's foreign-policy interests.
“The whole mandate of the NIIA is tied to the promotion of the understanding of international affairs by government and the citizens of Nigeria.”
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“The NIIA undertakes a scientific study of international affairs all the time.”
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