Ibrahim Babangida Quotes

• 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

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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.

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  Tags in Democratic, Nigeria, Lifetime, Fair, Aspiration

• It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

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  Tags in Line, Straight, Destination

• 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.

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  Tags in Authority, Historians, Analyst

• 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.

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  Tags in Complex, Foundations, Sought, Military

• We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.

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  Tags in Democratic, Continue

• With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.

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  Tags in Forward, Step, Coming

• It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

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  Topics in Age

  Tags in Partake, Civilization

• 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.

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  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Struggling

• 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.

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  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Spite

• Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

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  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Informed, Foundation

• The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

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  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Indeed, Bolder, Thrown

• 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.

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  Tags in Interpret, Changing, Appreciate

• The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

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  Topics in Democracy, Economy, Environment

  Tags in Modern, Emergence, Cultivation, Nigerian, Saw

• 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.

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  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Improving, Reforming, Doubts

• The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

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  Tags in Collaboration, Reconcile, Hands

• Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

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  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Blunder, Anew, Opportunities

• 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.

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  Topics in Sacrifice

  Tags in Options, Apologies

• 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.

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  Topics in Vision

  Tags in Indeed, Nigeria

• 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.

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  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Bedrock, Nigerian, Showcase

Ibrahim Babangida (27)

Birth:	17th August, 1941
Nationality:	Nigerian
Profession:	Politician, Soldier

About

Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, also known as IBB was born in Minna, Niger State, Nigeria. He is a retired Nigerian Army General who was President of Nigeria under military rule. He ruled Nigeria from 27 August 1985, when he overthrew Major General Muhammadu Buhari in a coup, until his departure from office on 27 August 1993, having annulled the elections held on 12 June that year. General Babangida was a key player in most of the military coups in Nigeria.

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