Ibrahim Babangida Quotes

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.
Ibrahim Babangida

Thought, Choice, While

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.
Ibrahim Babangida

Society, Past, Understand

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

Government, Alone, Person

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

History, Culture, Debate

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

Work, Long, Goes

At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
Ibrahim Babangida

Society, Live, Reality

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.
Ibrahim Babangida

Success, Leadership, Alone

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.
Ibrahim Babangida

Technology, Humanity, Reason

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

Mistakes, Past, Democracy

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

History, Experience, Sad

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.
Ibrahim Babangida

Leadership, Business, Bring

For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.
Ibrahim Babangida

Long, Cannot, Poverty

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.
Ibrahim Babangida

Life, Work, Today

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.
Ibrahim Babangida

Leadership, Chance, Stand

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

Power, Country, Economic

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

Nature, Line, Distance

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

Great, Human, Through

Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
Ibrahim Babangida

Economic, Modern, Focused

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

Democracy, Problems, Return

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.
Ibrahim Babangida

Living, Facts, Authority

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.
Ibrahim Babangida

Freedom, Society, Liberty

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

Love, Change, Freedom

Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.
Ibrahim Babangida

Society, Choice, Either

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.
Ibrahim Babangida

Freedom, Democracy, Free

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.
Ibrahim Babangida

History, Democracy, Country

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Nationality: Nigerian

Type: Statesman

Born: August 17, 1941

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