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Democracy does not guarantee that the leader or those leaders will deliver or indeed are able to deliver on what we want.

— Babatunde Fashola

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The concept of loyalty is a very strange one. My prayer is, may our loyalty never be tested.”

The health of the private sector in any economy is a fair measure of how prosperous and democratic that economy is.

The more transport infrastructure we provide the more efficient the economy becomes, resulting in more business opportunities.

I have played my role but people can decide whether it is quiet or not

Local government autonomy unrealistic, says Fashola

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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

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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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