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" Our vision is for a country that grows what it eats and produces what it consumes. It is for a country that no longer has to import petroleum products and develop a lucrative petrochemical industry. "

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" Our diversity as a people united is also our potential to transform our large deposits of mineral resources and use same for national development. "

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" It is in the interest of the government and also the interest of the nation that things are done properly and that there is due process and that we are not unfair. "

" If the church says you are not allowed to steal, and we will ostracize you in our midst if you did, if what a man has does not measure up to what he has, if we found that a man has more money than he should have, if a man is earning a salary of a civil servant or a public servant and he has houses everywhere, we have to hold him to account. "

" No matter how much you pray or fast, our country cannot grow without some of us deciding to do the hard work that makes nations work. "

" As we move to diversify our economy, we are particularly aware that we need oil to get out of oil. "

" Africa cannot afford to underestimate the power of technology to fast-track the continent's rise. Emerging technologies have played extraordinary roles in every aspect of the continent's most touted successes. "

" We all know that Nigerian jollof rice is the best anywhere. We beat the Ghanaians and Senegalese hands down. "

" The Nigerian economy is a huge one. "

" Many of the ethnic and other parochial tensions that have tended to create insecurity and outright conflict, time and time again, are largely as a result of failure to deliberately undertake nation-building efforts. "

" Corruption and illicit financial flows are different. But they really must be twinned. This is because, for practical purposes, it is an eminently more sensible approach to treat most of the sources of illicit financial flows as corrupt activity, within a broader use of the term. "

" The most successful of the nations of the world are those who do not fall into the lure of secession but who, through thick and thin, forge unity in diversity. "

" We are committed to a continuous engagement with our people to explain government policies, receive advice and criticism. "

" The fundamental for the sustainable growth of Nigeria is not in the hydro-carbon industry but in agriculture. "

" You don't have to cheat or steal to be successful in life, but you must be ready to convert your challenges to opportunity. "

" Corruption has been tolerated for too long now, and with Buhari, we will, for the first time ever, have a president who will fight corruption. He will act so that people will be deterred from corruption. "

" An active and vibrant railway system confers many benefits on the society. "

" No economy can tolerate the level of corruption seen in Nigeria without consequences. "

" There is no wisdom of man that can change men or change nations; it is the power and wisdom of God that can. "

" If you are not around when Africa truly gets going, it would be much like the sceptics who stood on the sidelines in the 1990s convinced that China was going nowhere. How wrong they were. "

" Tracing, freezing, and return of stolen assets has proved in many cases to be exceptionally difficult for most African countries. "

" We in Nigeria have seen just how difficult it is to get back stolen assets from the international financial system, such as banks that ought not have received those funds in the first place if even the most routine questions were asked. "

" The most important thing is that we are on the right path, and we will not deviate from it, even in the face of strong temptation to choose temporary gains over long-term benefits. "

" With 10 per cent of Nigeria's total land mass, 80 per cent of which is arable, Niger state symbolises the hope and greatness of Nigeria and has potential to feed the continent. "

" Great economies and great nations, prosperity, and abundance of nations and communities are created by men and not spirits. "

" The reason we have Christian president and Muslim vice president or Muslim president and Christian vice president is to have balance. "

" You are not born corrupt. We want to change that mind-set of the people. "

" Economic growth is not sustainable without nation-building and, even of greater importance, state building. "

" Hate speech is a specie of terrorism. "

" It is not possible for one tribe to dominate another based on the way God has structured the country. "

" It is the resolve of the government that none will be allowed to get away with making speeches that can cause sedition or that can cause violence, especially because when we make these kinds of pronouncement and do things that can cause violence or destruction of lives and property, we are no longer in control. "