If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame on me because I have learnt my lessons and you have deceive me and if you deceive me for the third time shame on me because am a compound fool.

My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.

Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.

The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.

Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.

At the same time, African aims to intensify cooperation with China in the fields of trade, investment and agriculture.

I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free.