Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.

Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.