In this post, I’ve shared some of the Powerful Muhammadu Buhari quotes.
Muhammadu Buhari is a Nigerian politician who has been the country’s President since 2015. He was born on December 17, 1942.
He is a former Nigerian Army Major General who served as Nigeria’s military head of state from December 31, 1983, to August 27, 1985, following a military coup.
Buhari unsuccessfully ran for president of Nigeria three times: in 2003, 2007, and 2011. In December 2014, he was announced as the All Progressives Congress party’s presidential contender for the 2015 general election. Buhari defeated incumbent President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in the election. It was the first time in Nigerian history that an incumbent president lost a national election. On May 29, 2015, he was sworn in. Buhari was re-elected in February 2019, defeating his closest competitor, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, by almost 3 million votes.
18 Muhammadu Buhari Quotes:
- “We shall rebuild and reform the public service to become more effective and more serviceable. We shall charge them to apply themselves with integrity to stabilize the system.”
2. “I belong to everybody, and I belong to nobody.”
3. “You are a leader of the past, of now and of the future; you will rise again; I wish you the best you wish yourself.”
4. “This generation of Nigerians and indeed the future generation have no country other than Nigeria; we shall stay and salvage it together.”
5. “I assure you, if I become president, the world will not have to worry about Nigeria as it is now.”
6. “I think we should be very worried because, with technology, Boko Haram and other terrorists have become very mobile in all continents, not only in Africa but also in Europe, America, and Asia.”
7. “The amnesty programme in the Niger Delta is due to end in December, but the government intends to invest heavily in the projects, and programmes currently in place.”
Muhammadu Buhari Quotes on Boko Haram
8. “Boosting education will be a direct counterbalance to Boko Haram’s appeal. In particular we must educate more young girls, ensuring they will grow up to be empowered through learning to play their full part as citizens of Nigeria and pull themselves up and out of poverty.”
9. “The federal government of Nigeria has always preferred to talk to bona fide Boko Haram leaders about the release of the Chibok girls, but we must have a credible person or persons that will intervene, preferably United Nations or NGOs.”
10. “I think, technically, we have won the war because people are going back into their neighbourhoods. Boko Haram as an organised fighting force – I assure you that we have dealt with them.”
11. “If you are starving and young and in search of answers as to why your life is so difficult, fundamentalism can be alluring. We know this for a fact because former members of Boko Haram have admitted it: They offer impressionable young people money and the promise of food, while the group’s mentors twist their minds with fanaticism.”
12. “There are many reasons why vulnerable young people join militant groups, but among them are poverty and ignorance. Indeed Boko Haram – which translates in English, roughly, as ‘Western Education Is Sinful’ – preys on the perverted belief that the opportunities that education brings are sinful.”
13. “As long as we can establish the bona fides of the leadership of Boko Haram, we are prepared as a government to discuss with them how to get the girls back. But we have not established any evidence of a credible leadership.”
14. “I assure you that Boko Haram will soon know the strength of our collective will and commitment to rid this nation of terror and to bring back peace and normalcy to all the affected areas, we shall spare no effort until we defeat terrorism.”
Muhammadu Buhari Quotes on Corruption
15. “We are going to secure this country. We are going to manage it properly. We will continue to improve the situation, security, economy, and fighting corruption.”
16. “Corruption will have no place and the corrupt will not be appointed into my administration.”
17. “I will kill corruption before it kills Nigeria. We will stop corruption and make an ordinary people, the weak and the vulnerable our top priority.”
18. “We inherited so many problems. Actually, I have said I will not complain because I asked for it. I tried to become president three times and I lost, but I was lucky the fourth time, l became one, so I can’t complain.”