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Olusegun Obasanjo Quotes

born 1937 Nigeria

Nigeria
Military leaders

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"Education remains the greatest investment any nation can make in its people."

"I have nothing to offer Nigeria other than leadership."

"Corruption is a cancer that has eaten deep into the fabric of our society."

"Leadership is the greatest challenge to Africa's development."

"No nation has ever attained greatness without discipline."

"We cannot build a nation on injustice and inequality."

I don’t know how the attention to Europe will allow sufficient resources for these organizations now that areas of inadequacies have been expose.

"I am a village boy who did some things by accident."

I believe the CGIAR system has done tremendously good work in the past. They still need to continue the good work.

"Keep faith with Nigeria because there is no other country we can call our own."

"Democracy is a continuous work in progress."

Nigeria has no business being poor, we have all it takes to make Africa great.

"A hungry man is an angry man."

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.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Olusegun Obasanjo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.