Olusegun Obasanjo Quotes

If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame on me because I have learnt my lessons and you have deceive me and if you deceive me for the third time shame on me because am a compound fool.

Femi Fani Kayode is my boy. Provide him food, he will eat and then sing for you. He’s a smart boy

I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free.

Even Jesus Christ cannot conduct a free and fair election in Nigeria.

To feed our people we must first feed our soil

My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

School is not meant for the poor, only for the rich.

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

Democracy should be nurtured and sustained in Nigeria and in our part of the world

What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.

I don't see why anybody should worry.

Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.

North and south must also adopt measures to arrest the growing phenomenon of illegal capital flight and the repatriation of illicit wealth siphoned abroad by corrupt political leaders and their collaborators back to their countries of origin.

There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.

Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.

We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment.

Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.

Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.

If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.

Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.

The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.

My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.

We will work to bring an element of stability to the price of oil.

At the same time, African aims to intensify cooperation with China in the fields of trade, investment and agriculture.