By Hamilton Ifeanyi
Former President, Ibrahim Babangida is alive and healthy, some of his aides have confirmed.
They denied rumour in the social media that the Niger-born ex-Military leader passed on in the early hours of Monday.
As at the time of filing this report, sources in his Hilltop Residence said that Babangida was taking his lunch and was in a good mood.
One of the sources told reporters: “As I am speaking to you now, I am in the house with ‘Baba’. He is wearing a blue ‘babariga’ and is having his lunch.”
Another source said: “Death is not something we hide. When Babangida dies, it won’t be a rumor, you cannot hide death. It is something that when it happens everyone will know and hear if it.”
The retired general has in the past ‘survived’ several death rumours.
On June 8, 2016, the former military helmsman was forced to dispel rumours of his death while he was in Germany for a medical check up. In May 2019, it was again peddled that the Minna-born general was dead.
