Yemi Osinbajo Quotes

14th Vice President of Nigeria

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Oluyemi Oluleke "Yemi" Osinbajo GCON (born 8 March 1957) is a Nigerian politician and a lawyer, who is the current Vice President of Nigeria, in office since 29 May 2015. He is also a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Professor of Law and until his inauguration as Vice President, a Senior Partner with SimmonsCooper Partners, a commercial law practice.

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Native Name: Oluyemi Oluleke Osinbajo

Alternative Names: PYO • Professor Yemi Osinbajo • Pastor Yemi Osinbajo • Oluyemi Osinbajo

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The quality and quantum of potential investors in Africa is huge.

If this government is doing the right thing by fighting corruption, the Church should support it.

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.

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

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

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

Many of the ethnic and other parochial tensions that have tended to create insecurity and outright conflict, time and time again, are largely as a result of failure to deliberately undertake nation-building efforts.

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.

Any nation that does not emphasize integrity will always fail.

The carnal nature of man is that he places his tribe above others, but the only basis for the power and unity of the church is that there is no Jew or Gentile.

We all know that Nigerian jollof rice is the best anywhere. We beat the Ghanaians and Senegalese hands down.

You don't have to cheat or steal to be successful in life, but you must be ready to convert your challenges to opportunity.

We are committed to a continuous engagement with our people to explain government policies, receive advice and criticism.

The reason we have Christian president and Muslim vice president or Muslim president and Christian vice president is to have balance.

Nigeria is still grappling with the negative consequences of the use of opacity by senior members of government and their cronies between 1993 and 1998, awarding themselves juicy contracts in the extractive industry.