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In India, one local government can have 50 industries. Why can’t we do that in northern Nigeria?

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You can build all the roads in the world, but if people live without dignity, the government has failed.

Of course, we expect him to intervene. But people must understand he didn’t create the problem.

You see, people also fail to realise that there are no sentiments attached to the demolition of the house of that particular party leader.

Hunger is criminal. It must not be tolerated.

Sardauna believed in oneness. He never divided us. This new generation must stop tribalism and get back to building institutions not empires.

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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