“If he hadn’t inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now? Selling watches in Manhattan.”
- Republican presidential candidate in the U.S, Marco Rubio calling out his rival, Donald Trump for his privileged background, during a recent GOP debate (Source: CNN)
“Next month marks a year since President @Mbuhari was elected. There’s a time for everything. The time for blaming @GEJonathan should be over.”
- Senator Ben Murray-Bruce(Source: Twitter)
“I cannot run away; I am Ayo Fayose. If you hit me, you hit trouble, if I hit you, you will be in trouble.”
-The governor of Ekiti state, Mr. Ayodele Fayose accusing APC-led federal government of planning to make Nigeria an Islamic state (Source: Nigerian Tribune)
“In the 2015 presidential election, the APC was more prepared for defeat than for victory. The party did not expect to win and clearly had no agenda for victory.”
- A scholar and international affairs expert , Femi Aribisala, criticising the APC-led federal government over its handling of the Nigerian economy (Source: Premium Times)
“We did not say we will employ, we said we will create jobs.”
- Minister for Information, Lai Mohammed speaking on APC campaign promises (Source: Channels TV)
“The federal government did not build “a single new road” in the last 10 years."
- Vice President Yomi Osibanjo speaking at the pastors and leaders retreat of the Fountain of Life Church in Ilupeju, Lagos(Source: Daily Post Nigeria)
“If any INEC officer is bent on rigging the rerun elections, let him first tell his wife and children where his will is located because he will be treated as a political armed robber.”
- Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state warning those planning to rig the last rerun general elections in the state(Source: Nigerian Tribune)
“His holiness cannot be killed; He is not a mere mortal like the rest of us.”
- An unnamed member of Rev. King’s Christian Pentecostal Assembly reportedly said of the Supreme Court judgment upholding the death sentence against King (Source: The Nation newspaper)
“I have been a military governor, petroleum minister, military Head of State and headed the Petroleum Trust Fund. Never had I heard the words ‘budget padding.’”
- President Muhammadu Buhari vowing to punish those responsible for the distortion of the 2016 federal budget, while addressing the Nigerian community in Saudi Arabia (Source: Premium Times)
“It’s time, it’s time, it’s time for a woman in the White House.”
- A crowd in Columbia, South Carolina reportedly chanted after U.S Democratic presidential candidate, Hilary Clinton’s landslide win in the South Carolina primary(Source: Aljazeera)
