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Richard Akinjide Quotes

1930–2020

Richard Akinjide SAN (4 November 1930 – 21 April 2020) was a Nigerian lawyer and politician.[1] He served as the minister of education in the First Republic and the minister of justice in the Second Republic.

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I don’t see reason any politician should take politics as a full time at all.

I will say again that let politicians remain politicians and military should remain military. They have no business in politics. Let them remain in their barracks.

I don’t think we are tired of democracy. We are not tired of democracy at all.

The moment the British went away, the army stepped in and pushed the politicians out of power. That was the starting point because I was in the cabinet when the first coup took place.

In my view, the history of Nigeria independence can never be complete without the history of Nigerian journalism and we had one of the best journalists in Africa.

Attribution

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