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Ibrahim Babangida

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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.


— Ibrahim Babangida


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Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.


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It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.


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It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.


— Ibrahim Babangida


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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.


— Ibrahim Babangida


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Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.


— Ibrahim Babangida


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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.


— Ibrahim Babangida


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The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.


— Ibrahim Babangida


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Commodore Ebitu Okoh Ukiwe the first Chief of General Staff in General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida's regime andBabangida's second-in command was 'dropped' by Babangida. Babangida then issued a decree banning the presidential candidates of both the NRC and the SDP from running in new presidential elections that he planned to have held. However Babangida repeatedly defied summons to appear before the panel to answer allegations of humans rights abuses and questioned both the legality of the commission and its power to summon him.

There is evidence of a severe lack of human rights under his regime. General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida GCFR PSC DSS mni (born August 17 1941) allegedly known as IBB was a Nigerian Army officer and military ruler of Nigeria.

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