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What it simply tells us and the world is that you cannot have democracy without democrats

— Enyinnaya Abaribe

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Everybody loses elections, and you will see when the time comes. He will lose in 2027 because I know what Nigerians are feeling outside.

It won’t work because this time everybody will be ready. It will no longer be an announcement at 3 a.m. before people wake up in the morning.

I think we will also say that the 9th Assembly confronts the same problems Nigeria itself confronts. The pandemic also affected our operations, sittings, and even our committee assignments.

If there’s anybody that’s going to defect to APC, I think I should be the very last one. By the time I will defect, it means that there will be no political parties in Nigeria including the APC.

We are doing what we can do, according to the constitution and laws given to the National Assembly. Part of the misconception the public has is that they feel that even if the National Assembly takes decisions, they should also be the one to implement them.

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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!

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

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

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