“The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.”

My knowledge of Abuja is not as deep as my knowledge of Lagos.

As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices.

My recommendation is a compelling urgency for decentralisation. There is a necessity to decentralise the Police. We are under policed.

For every citizen that was robbed, I had failed.

We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants.

Actions must have consequences.

The unfortunate thing about money is that it always raises suspicion even amongst brothers.

There are times we spent money when we shouldn’t, the choices we make define the results we get

Every state need not start with state policing if they can’t fund it.

The concept of loyalty is a very strange concept. When loyalty is to be tested, the real answer is that may it never be.

who want to benefit from the commonwealth must contribute to the common purse.

Well, by all means please let’s decentralize policing.

The economy needs a stimulus. We MUST borrow. The notion of debt as a sin or something evil should be reviewed.

Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

There is division with people in our lives, as well as political division and religious division.

I’d like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go.

Reading ‘Legitimation Crisis’ in Tehran is nothing less than a masterpiece of moral and political criticism.

The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.

So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.