Yemi Osinbajo

“As you fight corruption, it fights back.”

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

“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.”

“The Nigerian economy is a huge one.”

“It doesn't matter where one starts from; it doesn't matter at all where you start from. It is how committed you are, how determined you are, and how hardworking you are that will ultimately make the difference.”

“We in Africa must prepare our economies in that direction that attracts such huge and qualitative investments. It is for us to push, and we must push.”

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

“If there is one person in Nigeria that believes that petroleum prices should not go up by one naira, it is President Buhari.”

“Africa Rising is as much about improving standards of governance as it is about an increasingly confident youths and civil society. It is also about businessmen and women who are stepping beyond national borders and going global.”

“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.”

“Here in Nigeria, what makes the news is conflict between the executive and the legislature.”

“I understand the law of sowing and reaping. It is a spiritual law that has tremendous physical implications. Every time that we delay or frustrate what we can do today, leaving it till tomorrow, we hold back the future. We, too, must reap what we have sown by experiencing delays.”

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

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

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

“Our country has the potential not just to be the giant of Africa but a major economic giant in the world.”

“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.”

“If people are stealing the resources of this nation, if people are taking bribes - if judges or persons in authority, whether they are judges or whoever they may be in government, ministers, whoever, if they are taking bribes - it attacks the fundament of our existence as a society.”

“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.”

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