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.

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.