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"Democracy is sustained not by elections alone but by citizens who refuse to surrender their voices."

— Olusegun Adeniyi

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"A nation cannot make progress when merit is consistently sacrificed on the altar of patronage."

"The greatest challenge facing Nigeria today is not the absence of ideas but the failure of institutions."

"History is often kinder to leaders who build institutions than to those who merely win elections."

"Journalism must hold power accountable without becoming an extension of political interests."

"Leadership is not about making promises; it is about taking responsibility for difficult decisions."

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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