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"13 MKO Abiola Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 24 August 1937. 7 July 1998 | Businessman | Publisher | Politician |

No one can give you power. It is yours. Take it!

No one Power Give Take it
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There is no humiliation I have not endured, no snare that has not been put in my path, no setup that has not been designed for me in my endeavour to use the path of peace to enforce the mandate that you bestowed on me one year ago.

Humiliation Endured Snare Enforce
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Only real democracy can move our nation forward towards progress, and earn her the respect she deserves from the international community.

Democracy Our nation Forward Respect
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Our youths, in particular, can see no hope on the horizon, and many can only dream of escaping from our shores to join the brain drain. Is this the Nigeria we want? We are plagued also by periodic balance of payments crises, which have led to a perennial shortage of essential drugs, that has turned our hospitals and clinics into mortuaries.

Youths Horizon Dream Escaping
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A scarcity of books and equipment has rendered our schools into desolate deserts of ignorance.
Scarcity Books Equipment Schools
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No one can give you power. It is yours. Take it! From this day, show to the world that anyone who takes the people of Nigeria for fools is deceiving himself and will have the people to answer to.

Power Nigeria Fools Deceiving himself
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Those with whom I have sought to dialogue have remained like stones, neither stirred to show loyalty to the collective decision of the people of their own country, nor to observe Allah’s injunction that they should exhibit justice and fair play in all their dealings with their fellowmen.

Dialogue Stones Allah Justice
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I am the custodian of a sacred mandate, freely given, which I cannot surrender unless the people so demand, and it is by virtue of this mandate that I say that the decision of the Federal Military Government to cancel the election of June 12, 1993 is invidious, unpatriotic and capable of causing undue and unnecessary confusion in the country.

Custodian Mandate Sacred Freely
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People of Nigeria, these are challenging times in the history of our continent, Africa, and we in Nigeria must not allow ourselves to be left behind. Our struggle is the same as that waged by the people of South Africa, which has been successfully concluded, with the inauguration of Mr. Nelson Mandela as the first African President of that country.

Nigeria Africa History Nelson Mandela
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Like the South Africans, we want MAJORITY rule today, that is rule only by those chosen by all the people of Nigeria as a whole in free and fair elections.

South African Majority Rule Chosen
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Let us say goodbye forever to minority rule by the military.
Say Minority Goodbye Military
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The antics of every minority that oppresses the majority are always the same. They will try to intimidate you with threats of police action. But do not let us fear arrest

Antics Oppresses Majority Intimidate
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The only difference between South Africa and Nigeria is that those who imposed minority rule on the majority rule whether it is by black or white remains minority rule, and must be booted out

South Africa Nigeria Minority Majority
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MKO Abiola Quotes & Sayings