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We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwealth of Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians, where people's wealth depends on the people around you. If you become a rich person and everyone around you is poor you are very poor.

Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

Nigeria has had the misfortune - no, the fortune - of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere in Africa. The masses have seen it, they are disgusted, and they want an alternative.

We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.

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

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.

I felt Nigeria didn't have to succumb to the image of being a corrupt country; we didn't have to let the economy stagnate.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.