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When you have a two-party system, then there would be real democracy.

— Ibrahim Saminu Turaki

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The biggest problem in some states is that the executive arm almost always takes control of the legislative body and, by extension, the judiciary.

The people that destroyed the North are northerners.

I am coming back to Jigawa, not to fight Governor Sule Lamido.

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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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