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Olusegun Obasanjo
18 quotes
“For Africa to move forward, Nigeria must be one of the anchor countries, if not the leading anchor country. It means that Nigeria must be good at home to be good outside. No doubt, our situation in the last decade or so had shown that we are not good enough at home; hence we are invariably absent at the table that we should be abroad.”
Olusegun Obasanjo (born 1937) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.punchng.com/full-letter-obasanjo-writes-buhari-asks-president-to-halt-2019-ambition/%3famp
“The lice of poor performance in government – poverty, insecurity, poor economic management, nepotism, gross dereliction of duty, condonation of misdeed – if not outright encouragement of it, lack of progress and hope for the future, lack of national cohesion and poor management of internal political dynamics and widening inequality – are very much with us today. With such lice of general and specific poor performance and crying poverty with us, our fingers will not be dry of ‘blood’.”
Olusegun Obasanjo (born 1937) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.punchng.com/full-letter-obasanjo-writes-buhari-asks-president-to-halt-2019-ambition/%3famp
“We have only one choice left to take us out of Egypt to the promised land. And that is the coalition of the concerned and the willing – ready for positive and drastic change, progress and involvement. Change that will give hope and future to all our youth and dignity and full participation to all our women.”
Olusegun Obasanjo (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nigeria has no business being poor, we have all it takes to make Africa great.”
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“Leadership is the greatest challenge to Africa's development.”
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“Democracy is a continuous work in progress.”
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“Corruption is a cancer that has eaten deep into the fabric of our society.”
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“Education remains the greatest investment any nation can make in its people.”
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“No nation has ever attained greatness without discipline.”
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“We cannot build a nation on injustice and inequality.”
Olusegun Obasanjo (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have nothing to offer Nigeria other than leadership.”
Olusegun Obasanjo (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am a village boy who did some things by accident.”
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“Keep faith with Nigeria because there is no other country we can call our own.”
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“We have a basis for mobilizing African leaders and leaders of the world through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) where Zero Hunger is one major objective. What This should be regarded as the responsibility of any leader in a country; it should be one of his major objectives.”
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“I believe that we have seen, happily or sadly, a war in Ukraine has exposed or revealed areas that are not doing enough. We had to have that war in Ukraine for us to know that we depended so much, so heavily and continue to depend heavily on Ukraine and Russia for wheat.”
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“I believe the CGIAR system has done tremendously good work in the past. They still need to continue the good work.”
Olusegun Obasanjo (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t know how the attention to Europe will allow sufficient resources for these organizations now that areas of inadequacies have been expose.”
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“One good thing that I can say about international research organizations is that technology has put in what we need through research and innovations in agriculture. What we need is getting those products of research to the farmers, and to encourage farmers to make use of them. If we do that, our banks will be full.”
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