by Kolapo Olapoju

 

1. “The election was an answer to prayers. We have been praying for God’s will and I think this is God’s will for the nation. I am not saying it was God’s will for Jonathan to lose the election but God saw that even if he wins on a platter of gold, his opponents will not have accepted the result and this would lead to chaos.”

 

– Founder of Calvary Kingdom church and former PFN National Secretary-General, Archbishop Joseph Ojo, said this during the birthday celebration of himself and his wife as well as a public presentation of his biography.

 

 

 

2. “The government has a security vote as high as N2 trillion, which is almost half of our entire national budget. So, we see that this situation has contributed to the need for politicians to fight-to-the-finish for political powers. If as a governor I have N2 billion every month and don’t account to anybody, you can imagine how people will line up to die for that job, not for the love of the country, but for the love of the pocket. So, this is the task for the president-elect. It’s not rocket science. It’s is very easy to achieve this in this country.”

 

 

– A former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and human rights activist, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, touching on issues in the polity and what President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari must do once he assumes office.

 

 

3. “Now, there will be a great light at the end of the tunnel for Nigerians who have been fasting and praying for “change” occasioned by the reckless corruption in high places in government. Asiwaju Tinubu and Gen Buhari have finally etched their names in global political hall of fame through their commitment to the entrenchment of structures that produced our democratic experience as a nation.”
– Delta governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, lauding Tinubu and Buhari for their roles in the recently-concluded general elections.
4. “PDP is part of Nigeria’s history and the APC would be glad to have a formidable opposition party. For the PDP, they are part of the country’s history and history in the making. All they need to do is to go into retrospection. “We will be glad to have a virile opposition. We want the PDP to be strong enough to be able to keep us on our toes.”

 

 

– The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Oyegun, while receiving a delegation of Former Governors Forum (FGF) at the APC national secretariat in Abuja.

 

 

 

5. “We have never lost hope as a people, but the issue is if the military has the capacity now, why didn’t they do it before? We are an unfortunate bunch caught up in a political game. It is unfortunate that we find ourselves in this situation. They have played with people’s lives and messed people up.”
– Pogo Bitrus, whose four nieces are among the abducted schoolgirls from Chibok community in Borno State, reacting to the announcement by the army that none of the abducted girls was among the 293 females rescued on Tuesday from Sambisa Forest by the troops.

 

 

 

6. “The strongest mitigating forces at this point are to redress the power sector deficits, encourage investments that are job creating and focus on human development and reconstruction. We also need to deploy efforts in conflict resolution and peace building in all our communities. I am here today, to invite you to work with the executive as partners in progress, as champions of good governance and development and as warriors for change. Together, we can make this nation great and as a role model in Africa and other emerging economies and democracies.”
– The President-elect General Muhammadu Buhari stating the mission of his presidency at the induction of the new lawmakers in Abuja.

 

 

 

7. “The xenophobia is actually a lethal show of misdirected anger. The attacks point to deep, underlying ruptures within the South African political economy that actually have little to do with the presence of Nigerian or other Black Africans in that nation. Nigerians have become scapegoats in a fundamentally domestic struggle. The Black populace is roiling because their economic plight has worsened since the end of apartheid. If prosperity had come to them, they would not have come to this.”
-‘Another approach to the South African attacks’, a piece written by National leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.