The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The state of no being knows neither pleasure nor pain.

Hate never can win a heart, Only love can do that.

This day, you are free, because you have chosen to be free – and because of your choice, your days of insignificance are over.

As you enter, you pray to leave. As you leave, you pray to never return.

Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together

Most times when you try to be all things to all people, you end up being nothing.

You become what you think about most.. But you also attract what you think about most. (John Assaraf)

I was never hit as a child. I don't believing in hitting, period.

Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human.