Ibrahim Babangida Is Not Dead

Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida

Former Military Head-of-State, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, is not dead, contrary to reports circulating on social media, PRNigeria gathered from dependable sources.

One of the sources in Minna, the Niger State capital, confirmed to PRNigeria that the former Nigerian leader, though ill for some time, is alive and strong.

According to the source, General Babangida, who is fondly called IBB, is hale and hearty.

“General Babangida even, this afternoon, had a sort of meeting and even political consultations with some friends and politicians who came to see him at his Hill Top residence,” he said.

The former military head of Nigeria from 1985 to 1993, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida was born on August 17, 1941.