Author: Ibrahim Babangida

Quotes

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

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

- Ibrahim Babangida

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

- Ibrahim Babangida

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 fast changing world.

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 fast changing world.

- Ibrahim Babangida

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

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

- Ibrahim Babangida

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 for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

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 for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

- Ibrahim Babangida

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 concrete achievement.

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 concrete achievement.

- Ibrahim Babangida

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

- Ibrahim Babangida

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 as a people.

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 as a people.

- Ibrahim Babangida

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

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

- Ibrahim Babangida

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