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1722 President Quotes

We want to refocus Nigeria to make sure that basic infrastructure is provided. The environment is created for private investment, both within and direct foreign investment. So jobs will be created. That is my dream for Nigeria.

Basic Both Created Direct
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Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reverse that.

Countries Developed Doctor Engineer
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We will bring justice to the savage terrorists known as Boko Haram. They will be defeated.
Bring Defeated Justice Known
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I reassure all Nigerians and the international community of our firm commitment to free, fair and credible elections. My commitment to free elections and one man, one vote remains unwavering.

Commitment Community Credible Election
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All Nigerians of voting age are free to vote based on their convictions. It is our duty to defend and protect that basic right, and - let no one be in doubt - we will.

Age Based Basic Convictions
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The stronger the boat of (democracy), the more it is able to meet the challenges of its voyage and deliver on its promise to citizens

Boat Promise Deliver Citizens
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The air of freedom we breathe today is the result of the sacrifices of thousands of pro-democracy activists, human rights campaigners and others who organised as civil society.

Society Freedom Breathe Civil
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In the comfort of our offices, let us not forget that majority of our people live below the poverty line.

Comfort Line Majority Forget
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Any society or country that closes the vital valves of its democratic space cannot develop at a reasonable pace.

Country Democratic Develop Pace
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Where there is no opportunity for one man one vote, there will be no accountability and no responsibility.

Vote Opportunity Responsibility Man
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Nobody should rig for me. I am assuring Nigerians that though I am contesting, nobody must manipulate votes in my favour. Our votes must count.

Count Vote Favour Manipulate
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I congratulate the candidates of the other political parties. I regard them not as opponents but as partners.

Regard Parties Partner Opponent
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In presenting myself for service, I make no pretense that I have a magic wand that will solve all of Nigeria’s problems or that I am the most intelligent Nigerian.

Service Pretense Magic Solve
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I have come to launch a campaign of ideas, not one of calumny. I have come to preach love, not hate. I have come to break you away from divisive tendencies of the past which have slowed our drive to true nationhood. I have no enemies to fight. You are all my friends and we share a common destiny.

Destiny Friend Share Common
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Democracy calls for sacrifice and tolerance an open ear and a strong voice.
Voice Strong Open Call
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I believe in the politics of give and take.
Take Believe Give Politics
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Separation of power is not separation of government.
Government Power Separation Not
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We are all Nigerians and I will be a President to all. This is the new dawn we crave.
Crave Dawn Nigerians New
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Course Destination Distance Historical
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It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
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.

Attributes Change Character Conviction
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Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Citizens Government Left Like
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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing

Far Best Prize Offer
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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

People Leader Boss Drive
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The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

Best Executive Sense Enough
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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Seize Moment Action Intend
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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Courtesy Mark Gentleman Courage
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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Kick Pant Person Responsible
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Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Great Speak Thought Mind
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

Old Age Success Start
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