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25 Ibrahim Babangida Quotes & Sayings
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25 Ibrahim Babangida Quotes & Sayings
Nigerian
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Born: 17 August 1941 |
President
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Statesman
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
Ibrahim Babangida
Debate
Culture
History
Divergence
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
Ibrahim Babangida
Appreciate
Cannot
Caught
Changing
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
Ibrahim Babangida
Affliction
African
Communities
Fault
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But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
Ibrahim Babangida
Achievement
Alone
Available
Away
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
Ibrahim Babangida
Blunder
Correct
Democracy
Mistake
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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.
Ibrahim Babangida
Aspire
Bring
Business
Each
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Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out.
Ibrahim Babangida
Apology
Choice
Chose
Even
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For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.
Ibrahim Babangida
Afford
Cannot
Dimension
Forces
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I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.
Ibrahim Babangida
Analyst
Authority
Believe
Event
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
Ibrahim Babangida
Complex
Foundation
Freedom
Lay
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Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
Ibrahim Babangida
Democracy
Experience
Foundation
History
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It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
Ibrahim Babangida
Course
Destination
Distance
Historical
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Across
Ages
Books
Civilization
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
Ibrahim Babangida
Attributes
Change
Character
Conviction
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Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
Ibrahim Babangida
Approach
Development
Economic
Focused
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
Ibrahim Babangida
Advanced
Any
Country
Democracy
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The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.
Ibrahim Babangida
Advances
Book
Date
Enduring
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The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
Ibrahim Babangida
Democracy
Development
Indeed
Land
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The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.
Ibrahim Babangida
Bed
Complete
Empty
Long
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There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities.
Ibrahim Babangida
Communities
Country
Doubts
Economy
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There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.
Ibrahim Babangida
Bedrock
Built
Core
Ensuring
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To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.
Ibrahim Babangida
Aspirations
Chance
Committed
Democratic
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
Ibrahim Babangida
Alongside
Basis
Continue
Country
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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.
Ibrahim Babangida
Being
Committed
Generations
Learn
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Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.
Ibrahim Babangida
Citizens
Government
Left
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Ibrahim Babangida Quotes & Sayings