Kassim Afegbua, the spokesman of former military president Ibrahim Babangida, has refuted rumours of his principal’s death.
“IBB is very much alive and bubbling,” Afegbua announced in a statement on Sunday.
“The fake news bill would be a suitable response to this category of fake news carrier.”
Prior to Afegbua’s statement, there were rumours on social that Babangida had passed on with no substantive proof to the claims.
This was not the first time that rumours about the former Nigeria military head of state would be trending.
Afegbua said the recent death rumour of Babangida was about the third this year.
“It has become consistent fake news for quite some time now wishing our own IBB, the one we easily refer to as “the last don” of Nigeria politics, dead,” Afegbua said.
The former military head of state’s spokesman said the rumours lack any element of truth because Babangida, according to him, still received some friends and associates who visited him at his Minna Hilltop mansion.
Afegbua noted “death, as the irrevocable end of all creation, will surely come to everyone some day” but urged the sponsors of the rumours not to take humanity to a ‘bizzare level’ by wishing Babangida death.
The former military president’s spokesman urged peddlers of the fake news to desist from it.
Meanwhile, former Senate President, David Mark, on Sunday paid a private visit to Babangida at his Minna Hilltop residence in Niger State.
Senator David Mark was accompanied on the visit by Senator Tunde Ogbeha and one other person whose identity could not be immediately ascertained.
Mark and the two others arrived the Niger state capital at about 2.30pm and were received by some staff of the former military president.
The trio were driven in one of the vehicles
in Babangida’s house and arrived the residence at about 3.00pm.
Senator David Mark went straight into the IBB sitting room where he met the
former military president before they went into private discussion which lasted
about 30 minutes.
Babangida and his guests reportedly had lunch before the former senate president departed through the Minna airport.
One of the aides of the former military president, Alhaji Mahmud Abdullahi, reportedly said that Babangida had been receiving calls since the ” fake news ” about his death went viral on the social media.