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"49 Muhammadu Buhari Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 17 December 1942 | Stateman | Politician | President |

I belong to everybody, and I belong to nobody.

Belong Everybody Nobody I
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We are going to secure this country. We are going to manage it properly. We will continue to improve the situation, security, economy, and fighting corruption.

Improve Manage Secure Properly
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In the case of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, I have seen him take the tortuous path of using the judicial process. He persevered, and in the end, the highest court of the land, the Supreme Court, says he is not guilty as charged.

Case Take Path Process
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More than 60 percent of the population is below 30, a lot of them haven't been to school and they are claiming that Nigeria has been an oil producing country, therefore, they should sit and do nothing, and get housing, healthcare, education free.

Free Percent Below Country
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You are a leader of the past, of now and of the future; you will rise again; I wish you the best you wish yourself.

Past Rise Best Wish
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We will stop corruption and make the ordinary people, the weak and the vulnerable our top priority

Stop Top Weak People
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Any war waged on corruption should not be misconstrued as settling old scores or a witch-hunt. I’m running for president to lead Nigeria to prosperity and not adversity.

Lead Scores War Old
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Corruption will have no place and the corrupt will not be appointed into my administration.

Place Appointed Corrupt Will
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This generation of Nigerians, and, indeed the future generation, have no country other than Nigeria; we shall stay and salvage it together!

Future Stay Country Salvage
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We will be a compassionate government, for out of compassion arises the truest forms of wealth and progress a society can attain.

Attain Society Wealth Arises
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No longer shall illegal flows of massive sums leave these shores to finance other economies. While our people languish in poverty, we effectively give financial aid to nations that is not justified. I am sick of this. It must stop. The money saved will finance jobs, health care and the provision of social safety net for the needy, weak and vulnerable of our land.

Land Weak Safety Sick
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We shall strongly battle another form of evil that is even worse than terrorism – the evil of corruption.

Evil Worse Battle Form
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But we cannot claim to have defeated Boko Haram without rescuing the Chibok girls and all other innocent persons held hostage by insurgents.

Claim Held Persons Girls
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Boko Haram is a typical example of small fires causing large fires. An eccentric and unorthodox preacher with a tiny following was given posthumous fame and following by his extra judicial murder at the hands of the police.

Small Large Tiny Fame
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The misappropriation of resources provided by the government for weapons means the Nigerian military is unable to beat Boko Haram.

Means Resources Weapons Beat
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If you are starving and young and in search of answers as to why your life is so difficult, fundamentalism can be alluring. We know this for a fact because former members of Boko Haram have admitted it: they offer impressionable young people money and the promise of food, while the group's mentors twist their minds with fanaticism.

Twist Minds Money Promise
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You shall be able to go to bed knowing you are safe… Insurgents would soon know the strength of the collective will of Nigerians.

Strength Safe Able Soon
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We are going to erect and maintain an efficient, disciplined people – friendly and well-compensated security forces within an over – all security architecture.

Over Erect Maintain Forces
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We stand united in our pledge to resist terror in Nigeria – not just through military means but also through the power of opportunity and the hope of a better future for all.

Future Better Stand Power
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I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria… God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the total implementation of the Sharia in the country.

Total Show Stop Inside
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Religion is a personal affair. If you want to visit Mecca or Jerusalem do it with your personal funds. Sponsorship of religious pilgrimages is illegal, unconstitutional and lack of fairness.

Affair Visit Lack Funds
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Because they can’t attack our record, they accuse me falsely of ethnic jingoes; they accuse me falsely of religious fundamentalism. Because they cannot attack our record, they accuse us falsely of calling for election violence – when we have only insisted on peace. Even as Head of State, we never imposed Sharia.

Attack Record Accuse Ethnic
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Religion must never be used as an excuse to divide us, oppress others or gain unfair advantage.

Excuse Divide Gain Unfair
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Whatever one’s views are, Nigerians must thank former President Jonathan for not digging-in in the face of defeat and thereby saving the country untold consequences. Whatever one’s views are, Nigerians must thank former President Jonathan for not digging-in in the face of defeat and thereby saving the country untold consequences.

Thank Face Saving Views
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I would like to thank President Goodluck Jonathan for his display of statesmanship in setting a precedent for us that has now made our people proud to be Nigerians wherever they are.

Proud People Display Thank
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There shall no more be a ruling party; All Progressive Congress (APC), will now be your governing party.

Party Shall Ruling Will
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You are all my people; I will treat you all as mine. I will work for those who voted for me, voted against me and those who didn’t vote at all.

Mine Work Vote Treat
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I cannot change the past. But I can change the present and the future.

Past Change Present Future
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I have heard and read references to me as a ‘former dictator’… I take responsibility for anything that happened under my watch.

Read Under Take Watch
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I bear no ill will against anyone on past events. Nobody should fear anything from me. We are not after anyone. People should only fear the consequences of their actions.

Past Actions People Event
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A few people have privately voiced fears that on coming back to office I shall go after them. These fears are groundless. There will be no paying off old scores. The past is prologue.

Fears Office Scores Past
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Let us put the recent past behind us and forget our old battles.
Battles Recent Behind Forget
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We have all the attributes of a great nation. We are not there yet because the one commodity we have been unable to exploit to the fullest is unity of purpose.

Great Exploit Unity Nation
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This generation of Nigerians and indeed the future generation have no country other than Nigeria, we shall stay and salvage it together!

Stay Future Country Together
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Our long night is over and a new dawn has come… Democracy and rule of law will be put in place.
Place Rule Long Law
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Along the way there will be success and setbacks; mistakes will be made but we will not take you for granted.

Success Mistakes Along Granted
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The work of making Nigeria great is not yet done, because I still believe that change is possible, this time through the ballot, and most importantly, because I still have the capacity and the passion to dream and work for a Nigeria that will be respected again in the comity of nations and that all Nigerians will be proud of.

Drea Passion Work Nations
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As far as the constitution allows me, I will try to ensure that there is responsible and accountable governance at all levels of government in the country. For I will not have kept my own trust with the Nigerian people if I allow others abuse theirs under my watch.

Watch People Trust Under
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Every new government inherits problems. Ours was no different. But what Nigerians want are solutions, quick solutions not a recitation of problems inherited.

Quick Inherits New Solutions
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We must change our lawless habits, our attitude to public office and public trust. We must change our unruly behavior in schools, hospitals, market places, motor parks, on the roads, in homes and offices. To bring about change, we must change ourselves by being law-abiding citizens.

Trust Roads Citizen Change
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The Federal Executive under my watch will not seek to encroach on the duties and functions of the Legislative and Judicial arms of government.

Watch Duties Arms Under
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It is only when the three arms act constitutionally that government will be enabled to serve the country optimally and avoid the confusion all too often bedeviled governance today.

Today Often Avoid Country
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We shall rebuild and reform the public service to become more effective and more serviceable. We shall charge them to apply themselves with integrity to stabilize the system.

System Apply Charge Reform
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I appeal to employers and workers alike to unite in raising productivity so that everybody will have the opportunity to share in increased prosperity.

Share Unite Appeal Worker
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We have to upgrade our dilapidated physical infrastructure. No single cause can be identified to explain Nigerian’s poor economic performance over the years than the power situation. It is a national shame that an economy of 180 million generates only 4,000MW, and distributes even less.

Power Shame Economy Single
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The amnesty programme in the Niger Delta is due to end in December, but the government intends to invest heavily in the projects, and programmes currently in place.

Place Due Intends Invest
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Justice is justice, whether it’s done in Africa or elsewhere in the world. The important thing is let justice be done, whatever evidence the prosecution has in Senegal. I think they should – you should proceed to make it available to the world and prosecute him according to international law on human rights.

Right World Proceed Africa
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I pledge myself and the government to the rule of law, in which none shall be so above the law that they are not subject to its dictates, and none shall be so below it that they are not availed of its protection.

Law Rule Pledge Dictates
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No one is coming to defeat this virus for us. Instead, the defeat of the virus in our country will be in our hands, alone.

Virus Defeat Country Hands
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Muhammadu Buhari Quotes & Sayings