General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), former Military President who is currently not in the country has spoken about his health while assuring he will return to the country soon.

General Babangida, who spoke on telephone with journalists at Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu’s Tunga residence in Minna yesterday when General Abdulsalami Abubakar paid the governor a Sallah homage said:”I am now well and will be back to Nigeria very soon.”

Although he did not disclose the specific date he will return.

IBB, while speaking through General Abdulsalami’s phone said: “I miss all of you, I wish you all Barka de Sallah. I am better now and I will be back in few days’ time.

The former military leader, General Babangida is currently receiving treatment in a foreign country.

Last week, the state governor sent a delegation from the state to visit the former military president.

Meanwhile Leadership gathered from a source close to the family that IBB is expected back next week Friday as he’s advised to undergo some routine medical examinations before returning home.

IBB reportedly left Nigeria on the 6th of September, 2014 for Germany where he underwent a surgery to relieve him of some back pains.

Meanwhile it would be recalled that former Governor of Lagos State and national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu on Thursday, September 18, returned back to the country after a prolonged trip abroad where he was alleged to be sick and had gone for treatment.