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

I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.

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

The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

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

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

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