Atiku Abubakar has stated he could not rely solely on Nigerian hospitals for private healthcare if elected president in February. 

“Well being amenities that cater to my well being will not be out there.” Mr Abubakar stated on the ongoing dialogue airing on AriseTV. “Now we have limitations; we all know now we have these limitations.”

Mr Abubakar’s response got here when requested whether or not or not he would flip to the nation’s medical institutions as president to set a transparent management that deemphasises patronage of international hospitals by the nation’s elite. 

The previous vice chairman and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Occasion has lived in Dubai, the industrial hub of the United Arab Emirates, because the late aughts, solely coming into the nation for essential holidays and political actions,

Peter Obi of the Labour Occasion stated he would use Nigerian docs if elected president, including that out there amenities could be improved to fulfill world requirements.

Nigerians have lengthy condemned the elite rush to international nations for medical care, a sample attributed to the neglect of the nation’s well being sector. President Muhammadu Buhari has continued to journey overseas, primarily to the UK, to see his docs. 

The president has flown to London each different month to obtain first-rate remedy funded by Nigerian taxpayers. The president has dismissed criticism of insensitivity from Nigerians, saying he has used UK docs because the Seventies.