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1915–1990
Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe (1915–1990) was a Nigerian nationalist, politician, statesman, and government minister in the Nigerian First Republic and a Biafran Roving ambassador during the civil war.
Also known as: K.O. Mbadiwe
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Let all cementers cement all cementables!
The British must leave because they have given us only puny education.
I have grown beyond timber and calibre into a political juggernaut.
If you want to achieve greatness, then you must be ready to finance greatness.
They come as come to become”;Nigeria is at the juncture where it must reach “an accord Con-cordial” with itself, its fate and its future.
When the come, come to become, the unbecome, must become.
I am a man of timber and calibre.
When the come comes to become and we all come to close combat, we shall come out.
Let finance jam with finance, when one irreducible minimum confronts another extreme irreducible minimum on another side, the net result is cataclysm and catastrophe.
Mbadiwe struggled in upholding his flair for national integration when the East seceded. However, he never wavered in his belief in Nigeria’s national unity even when the Biafrans lost the war.
Logic and illogicality can never meet. If you want the Presidency, that is the logical sequence. If you throw in any other thing, it can never meet, and illogicality and logicality will produce tautology.
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