Words worth sharing before the next election.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Nigeria's independence is an event important not only to the nation of Nigeria, or the continent of Africa, but to the world.

We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence… If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence.

The people are not subjects of the state; they are its lifeblood.

If I am great and my country is not, my greatness is diminished.

Infrastructure is not about profit. It is about the binding contract of citizenship.

Oppression lasts only for as long as the oppressed are willing to take it.

Talk is cheap. Lamentation is useless. It's time to battle the demons.

I will eschew tribalism and ethnic rivalry, and commit to breaking their transmission to the younger generation.

Leadership is produced, under our constitution, by citizens. When the citizenship is enriched, leadership is vibrant.

Change will not just happen by itself. It will take you and me — all of us, working together in sacrifice.

Nigeria is a land of possibilities.