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"All Nigerian states are now underdeveloped, uniformly, with insecurity and uniform poverty."

— Ladipo Adamolekun

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"There is no federation in the world with over-concentrated powers and resources at the centre that is developed."

"Never, never in my lifetime should there be military rule in Nigeria again."

"Power devolution is the first step in turning Nigeria around."

"The federal system is the only one that can keep Nigeria united."

"Nigeria can only work in a devolved country."

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

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It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

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If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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