Coming then of this background and fully conversant with the historic duty our forefathers performed and on whose injunction we have to carry aloft the banner of this society, we have broadly elected to take on poverty as the main battle we must not postpone and which we must win.”
Governor Chimaroke Nnamani, Broadcast to the people of Enugu State, on the occasion of the 2003 International Day for The Eradication of Poverty (IDEP), October 17, 2003

"When we depart today, we shall depart in hilarious ovation of Azikiwe, Okpara, Mbanugo, Emole, Okeke and the great others instrumental to the birth and nurturing of this great institution. We shall also depart with those others who once had this elevation and who have been so resoundingly honoured."
Chimaroke Nnamani, Acceptance Speech on the occasion of the conferment of Doctor of Science (D. Sc) Honoris Causa by the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria, October 6, 2003.

"Today, we clad our visage with the truth that we are Wawa men and women. We are Ndigbo. We are humane, we love ourselves, we love our neighbours, and we love our women and children. I am Chimaroke Nnamani, just a kid from Agbani, your brother and your neighbour next door. We all belong to this Wawa community and we have today formed this government whose dominant purposes will be to promote peace, build hope, strive at continuity on that which is good and crave at reaching that which assures posterity for the benefit of mankind".
Gov. Chimaroke Nnamani, 2nd Inaugural Address, Michael Okpara Square, Enugu, Nigeria, Thursday, 29 May 2003

"For long, Nigeria has pretended to be a federation but at each turn, this has been exploded by the rage of the unitarist state which has almost suffocated every federating unit for selfish interest of the centre. Today, the affairs of a local village are determined in far away Abuja. A potential ward councilor has to get clearance for election from an electoral agency in Abuja. On a larger scale, the multi-billion dollar petroleum resources are accumulated for the control of the centre. In turn, villages, local government areas and states whose soil produce these and whose ecology has been devastated, go cap-in-hand to get the crumbs falling off the great master's table in Abuja. Many have called this "internal imperialism" but I call it a fallout of a badly structured Nigeria."
Chimaroke Nnamani, Speech at Odenigbo Forum, 2001

"The immediate post-First Republic states creation was designed to impede the Igbo and limit their potentials … Today, the mainland Igbo are chiseled into five states while their Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani have seven and 19-state muscles, respectively … By the local government distribution, the South-East has a mere 85 local council areas as against 138 for the South-West, 124 for the South-South, 112 for the North-East, 115 for the North-Central and 186 for the North-West. This is unfair. There is no justice in it."
Chimaroke Nnamani, Speech at Odenigbo Forum, 2001

"Today, the opportunity of democracy, and the evidence that its two year life after a 15-year military rule has more to offer Nigerians, make it imperative that the true journey to nationhood can only commence with a more objective look at the whole business called Nigeria. This entails talking and talking. We can never have enough of it. We may even yell."
Chimaroke Nnamani, endorsing the clamour for a national conference at the Odenigbo Forum, 2001

"Every village in Nigeria has an Igboman as the patent medicine dealer. Every village in Nigeria has an Igboman selling vehicle spare parts. Every village and town in Nigeria has an Igboman selling building materials. We believe in the unity of this country. We, more than any other race, have sacrificed to preserve the unity of this country. We will not relent. Ours is the authentic national agenda. We shall follow it".
Chimaroke Nnamani, Speech at the Igbo Summit, January 2001.

"For a long time now, we have talked about marginalization. Marginalization of the Igbo, as it were, did not start today. Marginalization started after our brothers reluctantly accepted independence but wisely insisted on having the greater chunk of power. While Julius Nyerere ended up as the Chief Executive of Tanzania; Jomo Kenyatta as the Chief Executive of Kenya … our own Zik of Africa was sidelined and hung with the title of ceremonial President. That was political foresight, political cleverness exhibited by those who knew the leverage of power. The gain has remained theirs."
Chimaroke Nnamani, Speech at the Igbo Summit, January 2001"

"I will like to ask our people to please cast their mind to the absence of any reasonable heavy industrial complex or for that matter any international airport or regional seaport in their part of the country. While it may be right to scream marginalization, I invite you to have a peep at the structural inadequacies which engendered this exercise in marginalisation. Great as our people are, they had failed in the right political consciousness and vigilance which have given our other compatriots the leverage, and what we may call birthright in political leadership".
Chimaroke Nnamani, Speech at the Odenigbo Forum, 2001

"The essence of democratic experience in an emerging democratic dispensation is poverty eradication. All talk about freedom, fair play and justice as well as about playing politics in Africa is about poverty eradication."
Governor Nnamani while receiving the National Coordinator, Poverty Eradication Programme, Mallam Adamure Waziri

"We were freed from the white colonialists only to fall into the hands of a few set of African colonialists wh made nonsense of the liberation from the whites. The only way forward is that the new democracy should be allowed to endure with the provision of basic infrastructure and improvement of education and make more people literate to understand their rights".
Governor Chimaroke Nnamani, address to the people of Enugu State on occasion of the 40th Independence Anniversary of Nigeria.

The past 19 months bear an unmistakable stamp of our undertaking to initiate a new partnership, which has envisioned an Enugu State where in four years, our people shall be ushered into a new era of unprecedented wellbeing that shall erase the sufferings of yester-years."
Chimaroke at the inauguration of the Community County Council (CCC).

"It is only because of democracy that the 82 Division Gate which had stood like the Berlin Wall in our people's consciousness can come down"
Nnamani on the removal of the giant gate of the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army which had for years offensively barricaded the Enugu-Abakiliki Road

"Never, Never, Never again! Never again shall we have two societies in Enugu State. No more two societies: one for the rich, one for the poor; one for those at Coal Camp, a different system for those in G. R. A. A school system for those at Abakpa, a different school system for those in Independence Layout. Lack of water supply in Isi-Uzo, but water supply for the rich in Enugu. A system where our land is shared amongst the rich few who pay little or no taxes, who send their children abroad for education and junket all over the globe for social activities".
Chimaroke Nnamani, inaugural address to the people of Enugu State, 29 May 1999.

We came to discuss with our people, to give account of governance and to receive feedback from them on how governance is going on in their areas.”

- Governor Chimaroke Nnamani, addressing the people of Mbanabo South Development Centre during his meet-the-people tour of the area, March 21, 2005