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
Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture. – Ibrahim Babangida
Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy. – Ibrahim Babangida
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. – Ibrahim Babangida
The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation. – Jonathan Sacks